Empirical skills are playing an increasingly important role in the computing profession and our society. But while traditional computer science curricula are effective in teaching...
: This paper presents a novel way of examining the accuracy of the evaluation measures commonly used in information retrieval experiments. It validates several of the rules-of-thum...
Continuous queries are persistent queries that allow users to receive new results when they become available. While continuous query systems can transform a passive web into an ac...
Jianjun Chen, David J. DeWitt, Feng Tian, Yuan Wan...
Creating a university Help Center from scratch can be a challenging yet very rewarding experience for an IT professional. Buying computers, building networks, and installing softw...
In this paper, we attempt to describe the evolving status of wireless communications and its impact on the future of mobile computing. We present a historical perspective and eluc...