We introduce and validate bootstrap techniques to compute confidence intervals that quantify the effect of test-collection variability on average precision (AP) and mean average...
The performance of document clustering systems depends on employing optimal text representations, which are not only difficult to determine beforehand, but also may vary from one ...
This article is concerned with on-line counting of harmful insects of certain species in videos in the framework of in situ video-surveillance that aims at the early detection of ...
Online email archives are an under-protected yet extremely sensitive information resource. Email archives can store years worth of personal and business email in an easy-to-access...
User-centered security has been identified as a grand challenge in information security and assurance. It is on the brink of becoming an established subdomain of both security and...