Evaluation metrics play a critical role both in the context of comparative evaluation of the performance of retrieval systems and in the context of learning-to-rank (LTR) as objec...
Stephen E. Robertson, Evangelos Kanoulas, Emine Yi...
This paper addresses the question of producing modular sequential imperative code from synchronous data-flow networks. Precisely, given a system with several input and output flow...
Based on the framework of parameterized complexity theory, we derive tight lower bounds on the computational complexity for a number of well-known NP-hard problems. We start by pr...
Jianer Chen, Benny Chor, Mike Fellows, Xiuzhen Hua...
Users of database applications, especially in the e-commerce domain, often resort to exploratory "trial-and-error" queries since the underlying data space is huge and unf...
Abhijit Kadlag, Amol V. Wanjari, Juliana Freire, J...
A great number of documents are scanned and archived in the form of digital images in digital libraries, to make them available and accessible in the Internet. Information retriev...