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ITCC
2005
IEEE
16 years 6 days ago
Zonal Rumor Routing for Wireless Sensor Networks
has to be relayed to nodes interested in those events. Moreover, nodes may also generate queries to find events they are interested in. Thus there is a need to route the informatio...
Tarun Banka, Gagan Tandon, Anura P. Jayasumana
SSD
1999
Springer
106views Database» more  SSD 1999»
15 years 11 months ago
XZ-Ordering: A Space-Filling Curve for Objects with Spatial Extension
There is an increasing need to integrate spatial index structures into commercial database management systems. In geographic information systems (GIS), huge amounts of information ...
Christian Böhm, Gerald Klump, Hans-Peter Krie...
SIGIR
2008
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
A few examples go a long way: constructing query models from elaborate query formulations
We address a specific enterprise document search scenario, where the information need is expressed in an elaborate manner. In our scenario, information needs are expressed using a...
Krisztian Balog, Wouter Weerkamp, Maarten de Rijke
WSDM
2010
ACM
245views Data Mining» more  WSDM 2010»
16 years 4 months ago
Improving Quality of Training Data for Learning to Rank Using Click-Through Data
In information retrieval, relevance of documents with respect to queries is usually judged by humans, and used in evaluation and/or learning of ranking functions. Previous work ha...
Jingfang Xu, Chuanliang Chen, Gu Xu, Hang Li, Elbi...
SIGIR
2008
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
A simple and efficient sampling method for estimating AP and NDCG
We consider the problem of large scale retrieval evaluation. Recently two methods based on random sampling were proposed as a solution to the extensive effort required to judge te...
Emine Yilmaz, Evangelos Kanoulas, Javed A. Aslam