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WWW
2005
ACM
16 years 2 months ago
Improving recommendation lists through topic diversification
In this work we present topic diversification, a novel method designed to balance and diversify personalized recommendation lists in order to reflect the user's complete spec...
Cai-Nicolas Ziegler, Sean M. McNee, Joseph A. Kons...
WWW
2007
ACM
16 years 2 months ago
Improving the Performance of Online Auctions Through Server-side Activity-based Caching
Online auction sites have very specific workloads and user behavior characteristics. Previous studies on workload characterization conducted by the authors showed that i) bidding a...
Daniel A. Menascé, Vasudeva Akula
SIGIR
2010
ACM
15 years 5 months ago
How good is a span of terms?: exploiting proximity to improve web retrieval
Ranking search results is a fundamental problem in information retrieval. In this paper we explore whether the use of proximity and phrase information can improve web retrieval ac...
Krysta Marie Svore, Pallika H. Kanani, Nazan Khan
CIKM
2006
Springer
15 years 5 months ago
Improving query I/O performance by permuting and refining block request sequences
The I/O performance of query processing can be improved using two complementary approaches. One can try to improve on the buffer and the file system management policies of the DB ...
Xiaoyu Wang, Mitch Cherniack
LOCA
2009
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
Improving Location Fingerprinting through Motion Detection and Asynchronous Interval Labeling
Abstract. Wireless signal strength fingerprinting has become an increasingly popular technique for realizing indoor localization systems using existing WiFi infrastructures. Howev...
Philipp Bolliger, Kurt Partridge, Maurice Chu, Mar...