Progressive processing allows a system to satisfy a set of requests under time pressure by limiting the amount of processing allocated to each task based on a predefined hierarchical task structure. It is a useful model for a variety of real-time AI tasks such as diagnosis and planning in which it is necessary to trade-off computational resources for quality of results. This paper addresses pro...

In this study, we use eye tracking to compare the impact of ads on viewing behavior on desktop computers and mobile phones. As in previous studies, we use a list-based search engine results pages (SERPs) to conduct our examination. Our preliminary results contradict banner blindness on SERPs both on desktop computers and mobile phones. Additionally, the preliminary results suggest that top ads ...

Œe design and presentation of a Search Engine Results Page (SERP) has been subject to much research. With many contemporary aspects of the SERP now under scrutiny, work still remains in investigating more traditional SERP components, such as the result summary. Prior studies have examined a variety of di‚erent aspects of result summaries, but in this paper we investigate the inƒuence of result ...

In recent years, crowd sourcing has emerged as a good solution for digitizing voluminous tasks. What’s more, it offers a social solution promising to extend economic opportunities to low-income countries, alleviating the welfare of poor, honest and yet uneducated labor. On the other hand, crowd sourcing’s virtual nature and anonymity encourages fraudulent workers to misuse the service for quick...

Understanding user intent during a web navigation session is a challenging topic, which is drawing the attention of many researchers in this area. The achievements of such research goals would have a great impact on many internet-based applications. For instance, if a search engine had the capability of capturing user intents, it could better suite the order of search results to user needs. In ...

Outsourcing computation to remote parties (“workers”) is an increasingly common practice, owing in part to the growth of cloud computing. However, outsourcing raises concerns that outsourced tasks may be completed incorrectly, whether by accident or because workers cheat to minimize their cost and optimize their gain. The goal of this paper is to explore, using game theory, the conditions under...

The West Africa Field Epidemiology and Laboratory Training Program (WA-FELTP) which was established in September 2007, is an inter-country, competency-based, in-service and post -graduate training program in applied epidemiology and public health that builds the capacity to strengthen the surveillance and response system as well as epidemic control in the French-speaking countries where they ar...

The huge number of available documents on the Web makes finding relevant ones a challenge. Thus, searching for information becomes more and more complex because of the growing volume of data and of its lack of structure. The quality of results that traditional full-text search engines provide is still not optimal for many types of user queries. Especially, the ambiguities of natural languages a...

Patents sometimes cite webpages either as general background to the problem being addressed or to identify prior publications that limit the scope of the patent granted. Counts of the number of patents citing an organization’s website may therefore provide an indicator of its technological capacity or relevance. This article introduces methods to extract URL citations from patents and evaluates...

Software clustering algorithms are used to create high-level views of a system’s structure using source code-level artifacts. Software clustering is an active area of research that has produced many clustering algorithms. However, we have seen very little work that investigates how the results of these algorithms can be evaluated objectively in the absence of a benchmark decomposition, or witho...