: 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...
Document similarity search (i.e. query by example) aims to retrieve a ranked list of documents similar to a query document in a text corpus or on the Web. Most existing approaches...
As we enter the new millennium, the approach to product development is evolving rapidly. Companies are in the process of creating a distributed design and manufacturing environmen...
This paper describes an approach (and its implementation) on how to handle the large number of data from user centered engineering processes. It uses objectoriented abstraction me...
Strong user involvement and clear business objectives, both relying on efficient communication between the developers and the business, are key factors for a project's succes...
Martin Nussbaumer, Patrick Freudenstein, Martin Ga...