This paper describes the Patent Retrieval Task in the Fourth NTCIR Workshop, and the test collections produced in this task. We perform the invalidity search task, in which each p...
New information is obtained by research and disseminated by papers in conferences and journals. The synthesis of knowledge depends upon social discourse among the experts in a give...
Nowadays, industry and governments are faced with an increasing number of varying threats concerning the security of their valuable business processes. Due to the vast damage pote...
This workshop promotes ubiquitous computing research in authentic urban setting, with real users and with sufficient scale and time span. We first motivate why such research is im...
Cost, schedule and quality are highly correlated factors in software development. They basically form three sides of the same triangle. Beyond a certain point (the “Quality is F...
Barry W. Boehm, Sunita Chulani, June M. Verner, Be...