The top web search result is crucial for user satisfaction with the web search experience. We argue that the importance of the relevance at the top position necessitates special h...
Time is an important dimension of relevance for a large number of searches, such as over blogs and news archives. So far, research on searching over such collections has largely f...
Wisam Dakka, Luis Gravano, Panagiotis G. Ipeirotis
The nDCG measure has proven to be a popular measure of retrieval effectiveness utilizing graded relevance judgments. However, a number of different instantiations of nDCG exist, d...
Background: Assessing the outcome of motif mining algorithms is an essential task, as the number of reported motifs can be very large. Significance measures play a central role in...
Skewis prevalentin manydata sourcessuchas IP traffic streams. To continually summarize the distribution of such data, a highbiased set of quantiles (e.g., 50th, 90th and 99th perc...
Graham Cormode, Flip Korn, S. Muthukrishnan, Dives...