CADAL has been open to the public for more than two years. We have received a lot of positive feedbacks to improve the usability of CADAL portal. In this paper, we present our works in improving the usability of book search, reading and reporting services in CADAL portal. First, we present a quick book search application whose effective hybrid ranking mechanism combines content similarities wit...

0974-9683/CIIT–IJ-1847/06/$20/$100 © 2011 CiiT Published by the Coimbatore Institute of Information Technology Abstract---Decision on reservoir water release is crucial during both intense and less intense rainfall seasons. Even though reservoir water release is guided by the procedures, decision usually made based on the past experiences. Past experiences are recorded either hourly, daily, or ...

Web log analysis, like my own area of webometrics, is a relatively new Web-based, primarily quantitative set of approaches of growing importance to information scientists. With the shift in service provision to theWeb, libraries and archives need to engage with quantitative techniques to assess the impact and effectiveness of their online resources and information. Moreover, information scienti...

We study a family of closely-related distributed graph problems, which we call degree splitting, where roughly speaking the objective is to partition (or orient) the edges such that each node’s degree is split almost uniformly. Our findings lead to answers for a number of problems, a sampling of which includes: • We present a poly log n round deterministic algorithm for (2∆− 1) · (1 + o(1))-edg...

In this paper, we describe our participation in and the analysis of the interactive Social Book Search tasks as part of the Social Book Search Lab at CLEF 2015. In total, 192 participants from seven different institutions were recruited and completed the experiment. Through the combination of log data and questionnaires, a detailed picture of goal-oriented and open book search sessions was draw...

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