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CIKM
2009
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Empirical justification of the gain and discount function for nDCG
The nDCG measure has proven to be a popular measure of retrieval effectiveness utilizing graded relevance judgments. However, a number of different instantiations of nDCG exist, d...
Evangelos Kanoulas, Javed A. Aslam
CIKM
2009
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Classification-based resource selection
In some retrieval situations, a system must search across multiple collections. This task, referred to as federated search, occurs for example when searching a distributed index o...
Jaime Arguello, Jamie Callan, Fernando Diaz
PODC
2010
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Brief announcement: anonymity and trust in distributed systems
In this paper, we present a framework for achieving anonymity and trust, two seemingly contradictory properties, in distributed systems. Our approach builds on webs of trust, a we...
Michael Backes, Stefan Lorenz, Matteo Maffei, Kim ...
PODC
2010
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Transactional predication: high-performance concurrent sets and maps for STM
Concurrent collection classes are widely used in multi-threaded programming, but they provide atomicity only for a fixed set of operations. Software transactional memory (STM) pr...
Nathan Grasso Bronson, Jared Casper, Hassan Chafi,...
EXPCS
2007
15 years 10 months ago
An analysis of XML compression efficiency
XML simplifies data exchange among heterogeneous computers, but it is notoriously verbose and has spawned the development of many XML-specific compressors and binary formats. We p...
Christopher J. Augeri, Dursun A. Bulutoglu, Barry ...