The motivation behind many Information Retrieval systems is to identify and present relevant information to people given their current goals and needs. Learning about user preferen...
Maurice Coyle, Jill Freyne, Peter Brusilovsky, Bar...
Heuristics have long been recognised as a way to tackle problems which are intractable because of their size or complexity. They have been used in software engineering for purpose...
Neville Churcher, Sarah Frater, Cong Phuoc Huynh, ...
Utility functions can be used to represent the value users attach to job completion as a function of turnaround time. Most previous scheduling research used simple synthetic repre...
—The occurrence of a traffic anomaly is always responsible for a degradation of performance. The anomaly can be observable, at some scale, in different ways: an increase in the n...
Silvia Farraposo, Philippe Owezarski, Edmundo Mont...
—This paper proposes an algorithm for the adaptive adjustment of the transmission rate of VoIP sources based on the voice quality estimated at the receiver. This adjustment is ac...