Sciweavers

2269 search results - page 448 / 454
» Retrieval evaluation with incomplete information
Sort
View
SIGMOD
2006
ACM
238views Database» more  SIGMOD 2006»
15 years 11 months ago
Continuous monitoring of top-k queries over sliding windows
Given a dataset P and a preference function f, a top-k query retrieves the k tuples in P with the highest scores according to f. Even though the problem is well-studied in convent...
Kyriakos Mouratidis, Spiridon Bakiras, Dimitris Pa...
MOBISYS
2008
ACM
15 years 11 months ago
Cascadia: a system for specifying, detecting, and managing rfid events
Cascadia is a system that provides RFID-based pervasive computing applications with an infrastructure for specifying, extracting and managing meaningful high-level events from raw...
Evan Welbourne, Nodira Khoussainova, Julie Letchne...
WSDM
2010
ACM
166views Data Mining» more  WSDM 2010»
15 years 9 months ago
Ranking Mechanisms in Twitter-Like Forums
We study the problem of designing a mechanism to rank items in forums by making use of the user reviews such as thumb and star ratings. We compare mechanisms where forum users rat...
Anish Das Sarma, Atish Das Sarma, Sreenivas Gollap...
EUROSYS
2007
ACM
15 years 8 months ago
Competitive prefetching for concurrent sequential I/O
During concurrent I/O workloads, sequential access to one I/O stream can be interrupted by accesses to other streams in the system. Frequent switching between multiple sequential ...
Chuanpeng Li, Kai Shen, Athanasios E. Papathanasio...
WWW
2010
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
Live web search experiments for the rest of us
There are significant barriers to academic research into user Web search preferences. Academic researchers are unable to manipulate the results shown by a major search engine to ...
Timothy Jones, David Hawking, Ramesh S. Sankaranar...