ISER 2018 Editorial

Iser ’ 02

In collaboration with the Stanford University Medical Media and Information Technologies center (SUMMIT), Immersion Corporation has designed and developed a new haptic simulation interface for minimally invasive surgical simulators. This device, shown in Figure 1, features two similar master manipulators that each have five degrees of freedom equipped with haptic feedback. The centers of the gi...

Iser Wp 2011-14

This paper examines the role of interviewers’ experience, attitudes, personality traits and inter-personal skills in determining survey co-operation. We take the perspective that these characteristics influence interviewers’ behaviour and hence influence the doorstep interaction between interviewer and sample member. We use a large sample of 842 face-to-face interviewers working for a major sur...

Linux iSER Performance

Executive Summary The iSCSI Extensions for RDMA (iSER) protocol is a translation layer for operating iSCSI over RDMA transports, such as iWARP/Ethernet or InfiniBand. This paper presents iSER performance results comparing iWARP RDMA over 40Gb Ethernet and FDR InfiniBand (IB). The results demonstrate that iSER over Chelsio’s iWARP RDMA adapters achieves consistently superior results in throughpu...

The Ethics of Reading: Ingarden, Iser, Ricoeur

Editorial for the 7th Bibliometric-enhanced Information Retrieval Workshop at ECIR 2018

The Bibliometric-enhanced Information Retrieval (BIR) workshop series has started at ECIR in 2014 and serves as the annual gathering of IR researchers who address various information-related tasks on scientific corpora and bibliometrics. We welcome contributions elaborating on dedicated IR systems, as well as studies revealing original characteristics on how scientific knowledge is created, com...