Oneof the mainobstacles in applying data mining techniques to large, real-world databasesis the lack of efficient data management.In this paper, wepresent the design and implement...
The current Internet is based on a stateless (datagram) architecture. However, many recent proposals rely on the maintenance of state information within network routers, leading t...
Search trails comprising queries and Web page views are created as searchers engage in information-seeking activity online. During known-item search (where the objective may be to...
In practical classification, there is often a mix of learnable and unlearnable classes and only a classifier above a minimum performance threshold can be deployed. This problem is...
We consider the problem of evaluating retrieval systems using incomplete judgment information. Buckley and Voorhees recently demonstrated that retrieval systems can be efficiently...