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Maximizing only the relevance between queries and documents will not satisfy users if they want the top search results to present a wide coverage of topics by a few representative...
Yi Liu, Benyu Zhang, Zheng Chen, Michael R. Lyu, W...
CoolSpots enable a wireless mobile device to automatically switch between multiple radio interfaces, such as WiFi and Bluetooth, in order to increase battery lifetime. The main co...
Trevor Pering, Yuvraj Agarwal, Rajesh K. Gupta, Ro...
Understanding the detailed behavior of an operating system is crucial for making informed design decisions. But such an understanding is very hard to achieve, due to the increasin...
Yoav Etsion, Dan Tsafrir, Scott Kirkpatrick, Dror ...
Since clustering is unsupervised and highly explorative, clustering validation (i.e. assessing the quality of clustering solutions) has been an important and long standing researc...