The paper reviews the TREC Programme up to TREC-6 (1997), considering the test results, the substantive findings for IR that follow, and the lessons TREC offers for IR evaluation....
A personalized product recommendation is an enabling mechanism to overcome information overload occurred when shopping in an Internet marketplace. Collaborative filtering has been...
This paper describes an agent-based electronic market system whose underlying communication and cooperation protocols establish an artificial environment with advanced features. U...
Fair allocation of available bandwidth to competing flows is a simple form of quality of service (QoS) that can be provided to customers in packet-switched networks. A number of p...
In this paper, we consider wide-area backbone networks where multiple connection-oriented guaranteed services with differing bandwidth/flow requirements are offered. Specifically,...