The issue of confidentiality and privacy in general databases has become increasingly prominent in recent years. A key element in preserving privacy and confidentiality of sensi...
Modern retrieval test collections are built through a process called pooling in which only a sample of the entire document set is judged for each topic. The idea behind pooling is...
Chris Buckley, Darrin Dimmick, Ian Soboroff, Ellen...
Distributed computation systems have become an important tool for scientific simulation, and a similarly distributed replica management system may be employed to increase the loc...
Internet-scale security incidents are becoming increasingly common, and the researchers need tools to replicate and study them in a controlled setting. Current network simulators,...
We examine the stability of multi-class queueing systems with the special feature that the service rates of the various classes depend on the number of users present of each of th...