The fifth QA campaign at CLEF, the first having been held in 2006. was characterized by continuity with the past and at the same time by innovation. In fact, topics were introduce...
Performance monitoring in most distributed systems provides minimal guidance for tuning, problem diagnosis, and decision making. Stardust is a monitoring infrastructure that repla...
Eno Thereska, Brandon Salmon, John D. Strunk, Matt...
This paper discusses extensions to the previously developed “essentiality and proficiency” approach to increasing usability and accessibility of websites. The existing approa...
Matthew T. Atkinson, Jatinder Dhiensa, Colin H. C....
Mobile ad hoc networks (MANET) are dynamic networks formed on-the-fly as mobile nodes move in and out of each others’ transmission ranges. In general, the mobile ad hoc networki...
Text similarity spans a spectrum, with broad topical similarity near one extreme and document identity at the other. Intermediate levels of similarity – resulting from summariza...
Donald Metzler, Yaniv Bernstein, W. Bruce Croft, A...