Studies show that about 50% of web search is for information exploration purpose, where a user would like to investigate, compare, evaluate, and synthesize multiple relevant resul...
The Coarse-Grained Monte Carlo (CGMC) method is a multi-scale stochastic mathematical and simulation framework for spatially distributed systems. CGMC simulations are important too...
Lifan Xu, Michela Taufer, Stuart Collins, Dionisio...
Methods for automatically managing the performance of computing services must estimate a performance model of that service. This paper explores properties that are necessary for p...
While searching the web, the user is often confronted by a great number of results, generally displayed in a list which is sorted according to the relevance of the results. Facing...
Nicolas Bonnel, Vincent Lemaire, Alexandre Cotarma...
A growing number of companies are outsourcing their purchasing processes to independent purchasing agencies. These agencies now have to process an ever increasing number of purchas...