Users frequently modify a previous search query in hope of retrieving better results. These modifications are called query reformulations or query refinements. Existing research h...
Abstract. One of the critical stages in drug development is the identification of potential side effects for promising drug leads. Large scale clinical experiments aimed at discove...
As biometric authentication systems become more prevalent, it is becoming increasingly important to evaluate their performance. The current paper introduces a novel statistical me...
The focus of research on query performance prediction is to predict the effectiveness of a query given a search system and a collection of documents. If the performance of queries...
—We describe a system-level simulation model and show that it enables accurate predictions of both I/O subsystem and overall system performance. In contrast, the conventional app...