Despite great efforts on the design of ultra-reliable components, the increase of system size and complexity has outpaced the improvement of component reliability. As a result, fa...
Jiexing Gu, Ziming Zheng, Zhiling Lan, John White,...
Serendipity occurs when one finds an interesting discovery while searching for something else. In digital libraries, recommendation engines are particularly well-suited for seren...
Abstract—Biological clock, a self sustaining oscillation widely discovered in many species, is important to determine many biological activities, for example, the sleep-wake cycl...
Peng Yu, Xi Chen, David Z. Pan, Andrew D. Ellingto...
We discuss information retrieval methods that aim at serving a diverse stream of user queries such as those submitted to commercial search engines. We propose methods that emphasi...
Hongyuan Zha, Zhaohui Zheng, Haoying Fu, Gordon Su...
Field usability research involves observing people in their own environments—for example, workplaces, homes, and schools—to learn their normal or natural behavior. Through fie...