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JUCS
2008
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15 years 6 months ago
Dynamic Bandwidth Pricing: Provision Cost, Market Size, Effective Bandwidths and Price Games
Abstract: Nowadays, in the markets of broadband access services, traditional contracts are of "static" type. Customers buy the right to use a specific amount of resources...
Sergios Soursos, Costas Courcoubetis, Richard R. W...
SIGIR
2010
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
On statistical analysis and optimization of information retrieval effectiveness metrics
This paper presents a new way of thinking for IR metric optimization. It is argued that the optimal ranking problem should be factorized into two distinct yet interrelated stages:...
Jun Wang, Jianhan Zhu
WSDM
2012
ACM
236views Data Mining» more  WSDM 2012»
14 years 2 months ago
Effective query formulation with multiple information sources
Most standard information retrieval models use a single source of information (e.g., the retrieval corpus) for query formulation tasks such as term and phrase weighting and query ...
Michael Bendersky, Donald Metzler, W. Bruce Croft
DSS
2002
139views more  DSS 2002»
15 years 6 months ago
CI Spider: a tool for competitive intelligence on the Web
Competitive Intelligence (CI) aims to monitor a firm's external environment for information relevant to its decision-making process. As an excellent information source, the I...
Hsinchun Chen, Michael Chau, Daniel Dajun Zeng
WWW
2002
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Probabilistic query expansion using query logs
Query expansion has long been suggested as an effective way to resolve the short query and word mismatching problems. A number of query expansion methods have been proposed in tra...
Hang Cui, Ji-Rong Wen, Jian-Yun Nie, Wei-Ying Ma