The empirical investigation of the effectiveness of information retrieval (IR) systems requires a test collection, a set of query topics, and a set of relevance judgments made by ...
We investigate the criteria used by online searchers when assessing the relevance of web pages to information-seeking tasks. Twenty four searchers were given three tasks each, and...
Software products are often released with missing functionality, errors, or incompatibilities that may result in failures in the field, inferior performances, or, more generally,...
Alessandro Orso, James A. Jones, Mary Jean Harrold
Abstract. Context-aware computing promises a smooth interaction between humans and technology but few studies have been conducted with regards to how autonomously an application sh...
Spyware represents a serious threat to confidentiality since it may result in loss of control over private data for computer users. This type of software might collect the data and...
Raja Khurram Shahzad, Syed Imran Haider, Niklas La...