Abstract. QoS-based service selection mechanisms will play an essential role in service-oriented architectures, as e-Business applications want to use services that most accurately...
We have investigated two major issues in Distributed Information Retrieval (DIR), namely: collection selection and search results merging. While most published works on these two ...
DT Tutor uses a decision-theoretic approach to select tutorial actions for coached problem solving that are optimal given the tutor's beliefs and objectives. It employs a mode...
Abstract. This paper explores factors associated with effective external representation (ER) use. We describe an information-processing approach to the assessment of ER knowledge. ...
Search result diversification is a natural approach for tackling ambiguous queries. Nevertheless, not all queries are equally ambiguous, and hence different queries could bene...