An effective way to reduce the number of aborts in software transactional memory (STM) is to keep multiple versions of transactional objects. In this paper, we study inherent prop...
Many current effectiveness measures incorporate simplifying assumptions about user behavior. These assumptions prevent the measures from reflecting aspects of the search process...
Indexes for large collections are often divided into shards that are distributed across multiple computers and searched in parallel to provide rapid interactive search. Typically,...
An established method to detect concept drift in data streams is to perform statistical hypothesis testing on the multivariate data in the stream. Statistical decision theory off...
One of the attractive feature of Self-Organizing Maps (SOM) is the so-called "topological preservation property": observations that are close to each other in the input s...