We review the history of modeling score distributions, focusing on the mixture of normal-exponential by investigating the theoretical as well as the empirical evidence supporting i...
It has recently been observed that the node degrees of many real-world large-scale networks, such as the Internet and the Web, follow a power law distributions. Since the classical...
Abstract This paper reports our evaluation of the accuracy of capturing a user’s intent in an informationseeking task. Specifically, we would like to assess how accurately a use...
Network traffic modeling generally views traffic as a superposition of flows that creates a timeseries of volume counts (e.g. of bytes or packets). What is omitted from this view ...
In the logical approach to information retrieval (IR), retrieval is considered as uncertain inference. Whereas classical IR models are based on propositional logic, we combine Dat...