Stochastic simulation of time-biased gain

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 2040-2044

  Smucker, Mark D ^a   Clarke, Charles L A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

information retrieval; search evaluation

Indexed keywords

CLOSED-FORM EQUATIONS; DOCUMENT LENGTH; EFFECTIVENESS MEASURE; RELEVANT DOCUMENTS; SEARCH EVALUATION; SEARCH PROCESS; STOCHASTIC SIMULATIONS; USER BEHAVIORS; USER DATA; USER EXPERIENCE;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; STOCHASTIC MODELS;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

EID: 84871057318     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2396761.2398568     Document Type: Conference Paper

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