Carrying out experiments in Information Retrieval is a heavy activity requiring fast tools to treat collections of significant size, and at the same time flexible tools to leave...
This paper reports on a set of experiments that measure the amount of CPU processing needed to decode MPEGcompressed video in software. These experiments were designed to discover...
Andy C. Bavier, Allen Brady Montz, Larry L. Peters...
The World Wide Web lacks support for explaining information provenance. When web applications return results, many users do not know what information sources were used, when they ...
In this article, we describe the design process of Reno, a location-enhanced, mobile coordination tool and person finder. The design process included three field experiments: a ...
Giovanni Iachello, Ian E. Smith, Sunny Consolvo, M...
: Electronic commerce is widely expected to promote "friction-free" capitalism, with consumers sending software agents to scour the Net for the best deals. Many distribut...