Evaluation forums such as TREC allow systematic measurement and comparison of information retrieval techniques. The goal is consistent improvement, based on reliable comparison of...
Timothy G. Armstrong, Alistair Moffat, William Web...
— Many complex, real world phenomena are difficult to study directly using controlled experiments. Instead, the use of computer simulations has become commonplace as a cost effe...
Dirk Gorissen, Luciano De Tommasi, Jeroen Croon, T...
— Measuring real-time end-to-end network path performance metrics is important for several distributed applications such as media streaming systems (e.g., for switching to paths ...
The path-delay fault simulation of functional tests on complex circuits such as current processor-based systems is a daunting task. The amount of computing power and memory needed...
Paolo Bernardi, Michelangelo Grosso, Matteo Sonza ...
— It has been observed that different IEEE 802.11 commercial cards produced by different vendors experience different performance, either when accessing alone the channel, as wel...
Giuseppe Bianchi, Antonio Di Stefano, Costantino G...