Delayed branching is a technique to alleviate branch hazards without expensive hardware branch prediction mechanisms. For VLIW processors with deep pipelines and many issue slots,...
How to improve search accuracy for difficult topics is an underaddressed, yet important research question. In this paper, we consider a scenario when the search results are so poo...
With the advent of Java 5 annotations, we note a marked increase in the availability of tools that can statically detect potential null dereferences. For such tools to be truly eff...
Protest has made the jump between the offline and the online spaces and is frequently used in most virtual worlds available today. Despite the frequency of these protest actions i...
Portable, reusable test collections are a vital part of research and development in information retrieval. Reusability is difficult to assess, however. The standard approach— si...
Ben Carterette, Evangelos Kanoulas, Virgiliu Pavlu...