The competitive pressures of the telecoms sector are leading to a major push towards the automation and integration of many operational support processes. This creates pressures to...
We consider empirical evaluation of the availability of the deployed software. Evaluation of real systems is more realistic, more accurate, and provides higher level of confidenc...
Score normalization is indispensable in distributed retrieval and fusion or meta-search where merging of result-lists is required. Distributional approaches to score normalization...
To investigate the nature of people’s understandings for how search engines work, we collected data from 232 undergraduate and graduate students. Students were asked to “draw ...
— Distributed software environments are increasingly complex and difficult to manage, as they integrate various legacy software with specific management interfaces. Moreover, t...
Laurent Broto, Daniel Hagimont, Estella Annoni, Be...