The classical probabilistic models attempt to capture the Ad hoc information retrieval problem within a rigorous probabilistic framework. It has long been recognized that the prim...
The approach of using passage-level evidence for document retrieval has shown mixed results when it is applied to a variety of test beds with different characteristics. One main r...
The field of intelligent tutoring systems has been using the well known knowledge tracing model, popularized by Corbett and Anderson (1995) to track individual users’ knowledge f...
Inferring the score distribution of relevant and non-relevant documents is an essential task for many IR applications (e.g. information filtering, recall-oriented IR, meta-search,...
: DEVS is a Modeling and Simulation formalism that has been widely used to study the dynamics of discrete event systems. Cell-DEVS is a DEVS-based formalism that defines spatial mo...
Gabriel A. Wainer, Rami Madhoun, Khaldoon Al-Zoubi