Field usability research involves observing people in their own environments—for example, workplaces, homes, and schools—to learn their normal or natural behavior. Through fie...
In this paper we propose a model of creation and use of documentation based on the concept of mixed-initiative interaction. In our model, successful single-initiative interaction ...
We consider the problem of designing fast and strategyproof exchanges for dynamic resource allocation problems in distributed systems. The exchange is implemented as a sequence of...
Soboroff, Nicholas and Cahan recently proposed a method for evaluating the performance of retrieval systems without relevance judgments. They demonstrated that the system evaluat...
Term-based representations of documents have found widespread use in information retrieval. However, one of the main shortcomings of such methods is that they largely disregard le...