Abstract. This paper investigates the effect of performance measures and relevance functions in comparing retrieval systems in INEX, an evaluation forum dedicated to XML retrieval....
A foundational issue underlying many overlay network applications ranging from routing to peer-to-peer file sharing is that of connectivity management, i.e., folding new arrivals ...
In order to be able to evaluate beforehand the impact of a strategical or tactical move, decision makers need reliable previsional systems. What-if analysis satisfies this need by ...
This paper highlights some of the issues that have been reported in surveys carried out by the RIOJA (Repository Interface for Overlaid JournalArchives) project (http://www.ucl.ac...
Abstract. How to ensure that two different implementations of a simulation will produce the same results ? In order to assure simulation reproducibility, some domain-independent fu...