We consider the problem of large-scale retrieval evaluation, and we propose a statistical method for evaluating retrieval systems using incomplete judgments. Unlike existing techn...
Performance is an important quality attribute that needs to be and managed proactively. Abstract models of the system are not very useful if they do not produce reasonably accurat...
Gopalakrishna Raghavan, Ari Salomaki, Raimondas Le...
Internet coordinate schemes have been proposed as a method for estimating minimum round trip time between hosts without direct measurement. In such a scheme, each host is assigned...
There has been much work on developing techniques for estimating the capacity and the available bandwidth of network paths based on end-point measurements. The focus has primarily...
Karthik Lakshminarayanan, Venkata N. Padmanabhan, ...
For empirical software engineering to reach its fullest potential, we must develop effective, experiential approaches to learning about it in a classroom setting. In this paper, ...