We consider two of the most commonly cited measures of retrieval performance: average precision and R-precision. It is well known that average precision and R-precision are highly...
The effectiveness of information retrieval systems is measured by comparing performance on a common set of queries and documents. Significance tests are often used to evaluate the...
As artificial life systems grow in number and sophistication, it is becoming increasingly important that the field agree on principled metrics for evaluating them. This report d...
Accurate summary data is of paramount concern in data warehouse systems; however, there have been few attempts to completely characterize the ability to summarize measures. The su...
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) was defined to facilitate automatic configuration of IP addresses and other network parameters to hosts in a network. Efficiency of D...