With the wide deployment of digital technologies, come along information artefacts in various forms for various purposes that consumers have to interact with. This paper reports a...
Expressing preferences when querying databases is a natural way to avoid empty results and information flooding, and in general to rank results so that the user may first see the ...
Multiple-topic and varying-length of web pages are two negative factors significantly affecting the performance of web search. In this paper, we explore the use of page segmentati...
Answering a question of B´ona, it is shown that for n ≥ 2 the probability that 1 and 2 are in the same cycle of a product of two n-cycles on the set {1, 2, . . . , n} is 1/2 if...
Abstract. In this paper we introduce a novel approach for query performance prediction based on ranking list scores dispersion. Starting from the hypothesis that different score d...