Explorations in Tag Suggestion and Query Expansion (2009)
The query used in a search system is only an approximation to the user’s true information need, and as a result, many factors can reduce the quality of search results. One is query ambiguity,...
April Kontostathis, William M. Pottenger, Brian D. Davison
In this chapter we analyze the values used by Latent Sematic Indexing (LSI) for information retrieval. By manipulating the values in the Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) matrices, we find that a...
Kumar Chellapilla Microsoft Live Labs (2009)
Carlos Castillo, Brian D. Davison
The ubiquitous use of search engines to discover and access Web content shows clearly the success of information retrieval algorithms. However, unlike controlled collections, the vast majority of Web...
Qing Ye, Liang Cheng, Mooi Choo Chuah, Brian D. Davison
Abstract—Disruption Tolerant Networks (DTNs) technologies are emerging solutions to networks that experience frequent partitions. As a result, multicast design for DTNs is a considerably more...
Connecting P2P to the Web: A Gnutella-WWW Gateway ∗ (2009)
Brian D. Davison, Wei Zhang, Baoning Wu
We present an approach to extend the abilities of peer-to-peer networks to take advantage of broad information resources on the World Wide Web and vice versa. Either network may contain the data to...
Store-and-Forward Performance in a DTN (2009)
Mooi-choo Chuah, Peng Yang, Brian D. Davison, Liang Cheng
Abstract—Delay and disruption tolerant networks have been proposed to address data communication challenges in network scenarios where an instantaneous end-to-end path between a source and...
Hybrid Semantic Tagging for Information Extraction (2008)
Ronen Feldman, Benjamin Rosenfeld, Moshe Fresko, Brian D. Davison
The semantic web is expected to have an impact at least as big as that of the existing HTML based web, if not greater. However, the challenge lays in creating this semantic web and in converting...
Many factors contribute to a less-than-speedy web experience, including heterogeneous network connectivity, real-world distances, and congestion due to unexpected network demand. Web caching, along...
Performance Comparison of Unicast Routing Schemes in DTNs (2008)
Mooi Choo Chuah, Peng Yang, Brian D. Davison, Liang Cheng
Abstract—Delay and disruption tolerant networks have been proposed to address data communication challenges in network scenarios where an instantaneous end-to-end path between a source and...
IMPLEMENTING A WEB PROXY EVALUATION ARCHITECTURE (2008)
The evaluation of Web proxy performance can be complex. In this paper, we present the lessons and results of our implementation of a novel simultaneous proxy evaluation technique. In this...
Leveraging Search Engine Results for Query Classification ∗ (2008)
Shruti K. Bh, Brian D. Davison
Web query classification is significant to search engines for the purpose of efficient retrieval of appropriate results in response to user queries. User queries are short in nature, contain noise...
Insights from additional content (2008)
Replaying or simulation using web traffic logs are common methods of evaluating proxy caches. Request traces are also used to characterize typical web workloads. Unfortunately, most common, publicly...
Qing Ye, Liang Cheng, Mooi Choo Chuah, Brian D. Davison
Abstract—Disruption Tolerant Network (DTN) technologies are emerging solutions to networks that experience frequent partitions. In this paper, we propose the scalable hierarchical inter-domain...
Store-and-Forward Performance in a DTN (2008)
Mooi-choo Chuah, Peng Yang, Brian D. Davison, Liang Cheng
Abstract—Delay and disruption tolerant networks have been proposed to address data communication challenges in network scenarios where an instantaneous end-to-end path between a source and...
Henry S. Baird, Brian D. Davison
No existing document image understanding technology, whether experimental or commercially available, can guarantee high accuracy across the full range of documents of interest to industrial and...
Searching the Web and more — a juxtaposition of online search traces (2008)
The information retrieval task is larger than the problem of searching for documents on the Web. In this paper we broaden our analysis to include search logs of many Web search engines, peer-to-peer...
Brian D. Davison, Apostolos Gerasoulis, Konstantinos Kleisouris, Yingfang Lu, Hyun-ju Seo, Junyu Tian, ...
Recently the notion of popularity and its generalizations have been investigated as a possible alternative approach to text only analysis to rank web pages in search engines (e.g. [Kle98, BP98, CDR +...
A non-functional prototype at TREC 2003 (2008)
Brian D. Davison, Wei Zhang, Josh Miller
As a first attempt at participation in the TREC competition, we built a system which produced some preliminary results, but was unable to generate the quality of results that we expected. While we...
Brian D. Davison, Wei Zhang, Baoning Wu
We present a gateway between the WWW and the Gnutella peer-topeer network that permits searchers on one side to be able to search and retrieve files on the other side of the gateway. This work...
Soumen Chakrabarti, Byron E. Dom, Prabhakar Raghavan, Sridhar Rajagopalan, David Gibson, Konstantinos Kleisouris, ...
[Kle98] Jon M. Kleinberg. Authoritative sources in a hyperlinked environment. In
Brian Davison's Web-Caching Bibliography (2007)
This document is an attempt at building a comprehensive bibliography of web-caching publications. At present, it reflects my bias of what documents are interesting, so I'm sure there are more...
Effect of Global Parallelism on a Steady State GA 1 (2007)
Brian D. Davison, Khaled Rasheed
In this paper we investigate the effect of global parallelism using a master slave approach, on the behavior of a steady state genetic algorithm for design optimization. 1
Proceedings of the Graph Labelling Workshop and Web Spam Challenge (GRAPHLAB) (2007)
Carlos Castillo, Brian D. Davison, Ludovic Denoyer, Patrick Gallinari
The workshop focus is on the Graph labelling problem. The goal of the graph labelling task is to automatically label the nodes of a graph (with or without content information on the nodes of the...
Standing on the Shoulders of Giants Ranking by Combining Multiple Sources (2007)
Yaoshuang Wang, Xiaoguang Qi, Brian D. Davison
In most ranking systems for information retrieval, there are multiple signals that need to be combined to generate a single score for ranking a result. In this work we consider how the output score...
Measuring Similarity to Detect Qualified Links (2007)
Xiaoguang Qi, Lan Nie, Brian D. Davison
The early success of link-based ranking algorithms was predicated on the assumption that links imply merit of the target pages. However, today many links exist for purposes other than to confer...
Web Page Classification: Features and Algorithms (2007)
Xiaoguang Qi, Brian D. Davison
Classification of web page content is essential to many tasks in web information retrieval such as maintaining web directories and focused crawling. The uncontrolled nature of web content presents...
Incorporating Trust into Web Search (2007)
Lan Nie, Baoning Wu, Brian D. Davison
The Web today includes many pages intended to deceive search engines, in which content or links are created to attain an unwarranted result ranking. Since the links among web pages are used to...
Qing Ye, Liang Cheng, Mooi Choo Chuah, Brian D. Davison
Abstract—Disruption Tolerant Networks (DTNs) are emerging solutions to networks that experience frequent partitions. In this paper, we study how to provide high-performance multicasting service in...
Measuring Similarity to Detect Qualified Links ∗ (2006)
Xiaoguang Qi, Lan Nie, Brian D. Davison
The success of link-based ranking algorithms is achieved based on the assumption that links imply merit of the target pages. However, on the real web, there exist links for purposes other than to...
Undue Influence: Eliminating the Impact of Link Plagiarism on Web Search Rankings (2006)
Link farm spam and replicated pages can greatly deteriorate linkbased ranking algorithms such as HITS. In order to identify and neutralize link farm spam and replicated pages, we look for sufficient...
Knowing a Web Page by the Company It Keeps (2006)
Xiaoguang Qi, Brian D. Davison
Web page classification is important to many tasks in information retrieval and web mining. However, applying traditional textual classifiers on web data often produces unsatisfying results....
Detecting Semantic Cloaking on the Web (2006)
By supplying different versions of a web page to search engines and to browsers, a content provider attempts to cloak the real content from the view of the search engine. Semantic cloaking refers to...
� Proposed Solution � Evaluation (2006)
� Conclusion How search engine works � Crawler downloads pages from the web. � Indexer puts the content of the downloaded pages into index. � For a given query, a relevance score of the query...
Incorporating Trust into Web Search ∗ (2006)
Lan Nie, Baoning Wu, Brian D. Davison
The Web today includes many pages intended to deceive search engines, in which content or links are created to attain an unwarranted result ranking. Since the links among web pages are used to...
Knowing a web page by the company it keeps (2006)
Xiaoguang Qi, Brian D. Davison
Web page classification is important to many tasks in information retrieval and web mining. However, applying traditional textual classifiers on web data often produces unsatisfying results....
Undue influence: Eliminating the impact of link plagiarism on web search rankings (2006)
Link farm spam and replicated pages can greatly deteriorate link-based ranking algorithms like HITS. In order to identify and neutralize link farm spam and replicated pages, we look for sufficient...
OS-multicast: On-demand Situation-aware Multicasting in Disruption Tolerant Networks (2006)
Qing Ye, Liang Cheng, Mooi Choo Chuah, Brian D. Davison
Abstract—Disruption Tolerant Networks (DTNs) are emerging solutions to networks that experience frequent network partitions and large end-to-end delays. In this paper, we study how to provide...
Identification of critical values in latent semantic indexing (2005)
April Kontostathis, William M. Pottenger, Brian D. Davison
In this chapter we analyze the values used by Latent Sematic Indexing (LSI) for information retrieval. By manipulating the values in the Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) matrices, we find that a...
Identifying Link Farm Spam Pages (2005)
With the increasing importance of search in guiding today’s web traffic, more and more effort has been spent to create search engine spam. Since link analysis is one of the most important factors...
Cloaking and Redirection: A Preliminary Study (2005)
Cloaking and redirection are two possible search engine spamming techniques. In order to understand cloaking and redirection on the Web, we downloaded two sets of Web pages while mimicking a popular...
Identifying Link Farm Spam Pages (2005)
With the increasing importance of search in guiding today’s web traffic, more and more effort has been spent to create search engine spam. Since link analysis is one of the most important factors...
Web Content Caching and Distribution (2004)
Douglis, Fred, Davison, Brian D.
Web caching and content delivery technologies provide the infrastructure on which systems are built for the scalable distribution of information. This proceedings of the eighth annual workshop,...
Lessons from a Gnutella-Web gateway (2004)
Brian D. Davison, Wei Zhang, Baoning Wu
We present a gateway between the WWW and the Gnutella peer-topeer network that permits searchers on one side to be able to search and retrieve files on the other side of the gateway. This work...
Assessing the Impact of Sparsification on LSI Performance (2004)
April Kontostathis, William M. Pottenger, Brian D. Davison
We describe an approach to information retrieval using Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI) that directly manipulates the values in the Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) matrices. We convert the dense...
Assessing the Impact of Sparsification on LSI Performance (2004)
William M. Pottenger, Brian D. Davison
We describe an approach to information retrieval using Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI) that directly manipulates the values in the Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) matrices. We convert the dense...
Crawling Gnutella: Lessons Learned (2004)
David G. Deschenes, Scott D. Weber, Brian D. Davison
Since its inception in early 2000, the Gnutella network has been the subject of numerous topology measurement studies. Although those studies vastly improved our understanding of the network, and of...
Lessons from a Gnutella-Web Gateway (2004)
Brian D. Davison, Wei Zhang, Baoning Wu
We present a gateway between the WWW and the Gnutella peer-to-peer network that permits searchers on one side to be able to search and retrieve files on the other side of the gateway. This work...
Learning Web Request Patterns (2004)
Summary. Most requests on the Web are made on behalf of human users, and like other human-computer interactions, the actions of the user can be characterized by identifiable regularities. Much of...
Assessing the Impact of Sparsification on LSI Performance (2004)
April Kontostathis, William M. Pottenger, Brian D. Davison
We describe an approach to information retrieval using Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI) that directly manipulates the values in the Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) matrices. We convert the dense...
The potential of the metasearch engine (2004)
Research into metasearch engines has traditionally been focused on source engine selection and the re-ranking and integration of multiple search engines ' results. In this paper we describe...
Personalized Web Prefetching in Mozilla (2003)
Wei Zhang, David B. Lewanda, Christopher D. Janneck, Brian D. Davison
This paper presents the design and implementation of a Web prefetching module in Mozilla, an open-source and cross-platform browser. We have incorporated two kinds of predictors: a historybased...
Toward a Unification of Text and Link Analysis (2003)
This paper presents a simple yet profound idea. By thinking about the relationships between and within terms and documents, we can generate a richer representation that encompasses aspects of Web...
Finding Relevant Website Queries (2003)
Brian D. Davison, David G. Deschenes, David B. Lewanda
Search engine traffic is central to the success of many websites. By analyzing the queries-to-results graph generated by a search engine, our tool can recommend relevant queries for website...
Finding Relevant Website Queries (2003)
Brian D. Davison, David G. Deschenes, David B. Lewanda
Search engine traffic is central to the success of many websites. By analyzing the queries-to-results graph generated by a search engine, our tool can recommend relevant queries for website...
A split stack approach to mobility-providing performance-enhancing proxies (2002)
Brian D. Davison, Kiran Komaravolu, Baoning Wu
Many varieties of performance-enhancing proxies (PEPs) have been proposed to improve TCP performance and/or provide seamless mobility. One simple, albeit limited technique is the application-layer...
A split stack approach to mobility-providing performance-enhancing proxies (2002)
Performance-enhancing Proxies, Brian D. Davison, Kiran Komaravolu, Baoning Wu
1 Introduction Many varieties of performance-enhancing proxies (PEPs) have been proposed to improve TCP performance and/or provide seamless mobility [4, 7]. The typical approach requires protocol...
Predicting Web Actions from HTML Content (2002)
Most proposed Web prefetching techniques make predictions based on the historical references to requested objects. In contrast, this paper examines the accuracy of predicting a user's next...
When does a hit = a miss? (2002)
Brian D. Davison, Chandrasekar Krishnan, Baoning Wu
The Simultaneous Proxy Evaluation (SPE) architecture allows one to evaluate implemented proxies in a live network environment and be able to make performance comparisons between black-box systems....
ROPE: The Rutgers Online Proxy Evaluator (2001)
Brian D. Davison, Rasekar Krishnan
The Simultaneous Proxy Evaluation (SPE) architecture provides one way to measure the performance of proxy caches. It includes the novel ability to compare prefetching proxy cache performance, but...
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Assertion: Prefetching with GET is not good (2001)
The benefits of Web cache prefetching are well understood, and so prefetching has been implemented in a number of commercial products. This paper argues that the current support for prefetching in...
HTTP Simulator Validation Using Real Measurements: A Case Study (2001)
Simulation is a common technique used by Web researchers and provides many benefits. Verification and validation of a simulator are essential if the results of those simulations are to be believed....
Brian D. Davison, Brian D. Davison
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ROPE: The Rutgers Online Proxy Evaluator (2001)
Brian D. Davison, Rasekar Krishnan
The Simultaneous Proxy Evaluation (SPE) architecture provides one way to measure the performance of proxy caches. It includes the novel ability to compare prefetching proxy cache performance, but...
Pushing politely: Improving Web responsiveness one packet at a time (extended abstract (2000)
Brian D. Davison, Vincenzo Liberatore
The rapid growth of traffic on the World-Wide Web results in heavier loads on networks and servers and in increased latency experiencedwhile retrieving web documents. This paper presents a framework...
Pushing Politely: Improving Web Responsiveness One Packet at a Time (Extended Abstract) (2000)
Brian D. Davison, Vincenzo Liberatore
The rapid growth of traffic on the World-WideWeb results in heavier loads on networks and servers and in increased latency experiencedwhile retrieving web documents. This paper presents a framework...
Topical Locality in the Web: Experiments and Observations (2000)
Most web pages are linked to others with related content. This idea, combined with another that says that text in, and possibly around, HTML anchors describe the pages to which they point, is the...
Recognizing Nepotistic Links on the Web (2000)
The use of link analysis and page popularity in search engines has grown recently to improve query result rankings. Since the number of such links contributes to the value of the document in such...
Topical Locality in the Web (2000)
Most web pages are linked to others with related content. This idea, combined with another that says that text in, and possibly around, HTML anchors describe the pages to which they point, is the...
Pushing Politely: Improving Web Responsiveness One Packet at a Time (2000)
Brian D. Davison, Vincenzo Liberatore
This paper presents a framework that exploits idle periods to satisfy future HTTP requests speculatively and opportunistically. Our proposal differs from previous schemes in that speculative...
Pushing politely: Improving Web responsiveness one packet at a time (extended abstract (2000)
Brian D. Davison, Vincenzo Liberatore
The rapid growth of traffic on the World-Wide Web results in heavier loads on networks and servers and in increased latency experienced while retrieving web documents. This paper presents a framework...
Topical locality in the Web: Experiments and observations (2000)
Most web pages are linked to others with related content. This idea, combined with another that says that text in, and possibly around, HTML anchors describe the pages to which they point, is the...
Data Dissemination on the Web: Speculative and Unobtrusive (1999)
Liberatore, Vincenzo, Davison, Brian D.
The Web rapid growth results in heavier loads on servers/network and in increased latency experienced while retrieving Web documents. Internet traffic is further complicated by its burtiness, which...
Data Dissemination on the Web: Speculative and Unobtrusive (1999)
Liberatore, Vincenzo, Davison, Brian D.
The Web rapid growth results in heavier loads on servers/network and in increased latency experienced while retrieving Web documents. Internet traffic is further complicated by its burtiness, which...
DiscoWeb: Applying link analysis to web search (1999)
Brian D. Davison, Apostolos Gerasoulis, Konstantinos Kleisouris, Yingfang Lu, Hyun-ju Seo, Wei Wang, ...
How often does the search engine of your choice produce results that are less than satisfying, generating endless links to irrelevant pages even though those pages may contain the query keywords? How...
Data Dissemination on the Web: Speculative and Unobtrusive (1999)
Vincenzo Liberatore, Brian D. Davison
The rapid growth of the Web results in heavier loads on server/network and in increased latency experienced while retrieving Web documents. Internet tra#c is further aggravated by its burstiness,...
A survey of proxy cache evaluation techniques (1999)
Proxy caches are increasingly used around the world to reduce bandwidth requirements and alleviate delays associated with the World-Wide Web. In order to compare proxy cache performances, objective...
DiscoWeb: Applying link analysis to web search (1999)
Brian D. Davison, Apostolos Gerasoulis, Konstantinos Kleisouris, Yingfang Lu, Hyun-ju Seo, Wei Wang, ...
How often does the search engine of your choice produce results that are less than satisfying, generating endless links to irrelevant pages even though those pages may contain the query keywords? How...
Khaled Rasheed, Brian D. Davison
this paper we investigate the effect of global parallelism using a master slave approach, on the behavior of a steady state genetic algorithm for design optimization. Empirical results in several...
Simultaneous proxy evaluation (1999)
The Simultaneous Proxy Evaluation (SPE) architecture is designed to evaluate multiple web proxies in parallel using object requests which are duplicated and passed to each proxy. The SPE architecture...
Adaptive Web Prefetching (1999)
Many factors contribute to a less-than-speedy web experience, including heterogeneous network connectivity, real-world distances, and congestion due to unexpected network demand. Web caching, along...
Web Traffic Logs: An Imperfect Resource for Evaluation (1999)
Replaying or simulation using web traffic logs are common methods of evaluating proxy caches. Request traces are also used to characterize typical web workloads. Unfortunately, most common, publicly...
A Survey of Proxy Cache Evaluation Techniques (1999)
Proxy caches are increasingly used around the world to reduce bandwidth requirements and alleviate delays associated with the World-Wide Web. In order to compare proxy cache performances, objective...
Simultaneous Proxy Evaluation (1999)
The Simultaneous Proxy Evaluation (SPE) architecture is designed to evaluate multiple web proxies in parallel using object requests which are duplicated and passed to each proxy. The SPE architecture...
A Survey of Proxy Cache Evaluation Techniques (1999)
Proxy caches are increasingly used around the world to reduce bandwidth requirements and alleviate delays associated with the World-Wide Web. In order to compare proxy cache performances, objective...
Human performance on clustering web pages (1998)
Sofus A. Macskassy, Arunava Banerjee, Brian D. Davison, Haym Hirsh
With the increase in information on the World Wide Web it has become difficult to find desired information quickly without using multiple queries or using a topic-specific search engine. One way to...
Human performance on clustering web pages: a preliminary study (1998)
Sofus A. Macskassy, Arunava Banerjee, Brian D. Davison, Haym Hirsh
With the increase in information on the World Wide Web it has become difficult to quickly find desired information without using multiple queries or using a topic-specific search engine. One way to...
Highest utility first search across multiple levels of stochastic design (1998)
Louis Steinberg, Brian D. Davison
Many design problems are solved using multiple levels of abstraction, where a design at one level has combinatorially many children at the next level. A stochastic optimization methods, such as...
Highest utility first search: a control method for multilevel stochastic design (1998)
Louis Steinberg, Brian D. Davison
An intrinsic characteristic of stochastic optimization methods, such as simulated annealing, genetic algorithms and multi-start hill climbing, is that they can be run again and again on the same...
Highest utility first search across multiple levels of stochastic design (1998)
Louis Steinberg, J. Storrs Hall, Brian D. Davison
Many design problems are solved using multiple levels of abstraction, where a design at one level has combinatorially many children at the next level. A stochastic optimization method, such as...
Human performance on clustering web pages (1998)
Sofus A. Macskassy, Arunava Banerjee, Brian D. Davison, Haym Hirsh
With the increase in information on the World Wide Web it has become difficult to find desired information quickly without using multiple queries or using a topic-specific search engine. One way to...
Human performance on clustering web pages: a preliminary study (1998)
Sofus A. Macskassy, Arunava Banerjee, Brian D. Davison, Haym Hirsh
With the increase in information on the World Wide Web it has become difficult to quickly find desired information without using multiple queries or using a topic-specific search engine. One way to...
Highest utility first search across multiple levels of stochastic design (1998)
Louis Steinberg, Brian D. Davison
Many design problems are solved using multiple levels of abstraction, where a design at one level has combinatorially many children at the next level. A stochastic optimization methods, such as...
Predicting Sequences of User Actions (1998)
Brian Davison And, Brian D. Davison, Haym Hirsh
People display regularities in almost everything they do. This paper proposes characteristics of an idealized algorithm that, when applied to sequences of user actions, would allow a user interface...
Human Performance on Clustering Web Pages: A Preliminary Study (1998)
Sofus Macskassy, Arunava Banerjee, Brian D. Davison, Haym Hirsh
With the increase in information on the World Wide Web it has become difficult to quickly find desired information without using multiple queries or using a topic-specific search engine. One way to...
Probabilistic Online Action Prediction (1998)
People display regularities in almost everything they do. This paper proposes characteristics of an idealized algorithm that would allow a user interface to adapt to an individual's pattern of...
Predicting Sequences of User Actions (1998)
People display regularities in almost everything they do. This paper proposes characteristics of an idealized algorithm that, when applied to sequences of user actions, would allow a user interface...
Human Performance on Clustering Web Pages (1998)
Sofus A. Macskassy, Arunava Banerjee, Brian D. Davison, Haym Hirsh
With the increase in information on the World Wide Web it has become difficult to find desired information quickly without using multiple queries or using a topic-specific search engine. One way to...
Applying Parallelism to Improve Genetic Algorithm-based Design Optimization (1998)
Introduction The abundance of powerful workstations makes course-grained parallelization an obvious enhancement to many optimization techniques, including genetic algorithms [Gol89, DM97]. While...
Human Performance on Clustering Web Pages: A Preliminary Study (1998)
Sofus Macskassy, Arunava Banerjee, Brian D. Davison, Haym Hirsh
With the increase in information on the World Wide Web it has become difficult to quickly find desired information without using multiple queries or using a topic-specific search engine. One way to...
Human performance on clustering web pages (1998)
Sofus A. Macskassy, Arunava Banerjee, Brian D. Davison, Haym Hirsh
With the increase in information on the World Wide Web it has become difficult to find desired information quickly without using multiple queries or using a topic-specific search engine. One way to...
Human performance on clustering web pages: a preliminary study (1998)
Sofus A. Macskassy, Arunava Banerjee, Brian D. Davison, Haym Hirsh
With the increase in information on the World Wide Web it has become difficult to quickly find desired information without using multiple queries or using a topic-specific search engine. One way to...
Predicting sequences of user actions (1998)
AAAI/ICML 1998 Workshop on Predicting the Future: AI Approaches to Time-Series Analysis 1 People display regularities in almost everything they do. This paper proposes characteristics of an idealized...
Combining agoric and genetic methods in stochastic design (1997)
J Storrs Hall, Louis Steinberg, Brian D Davison
Abstract. Molecular nanotechnology will be physically capable of producing objects whose complexity exceeds that of any currently designed artifact by several orders of magnitude. Designs which make...
Rational Control of Multi-level Stochastic Design (1997)
J. Storrs Hall, Louis Steinberg, Brian D. Davison
Search in a complex design space (e.g. in VLSI design) is only feasible when it is factored into smaller ones. A common and useful factoring is the hierarchy of abstraction. Such problems are then...
An adaptive unix command-line assistant (1997)
A typical user exhibits many regularities in interacting with a computer system. Although each user's mode of interaction is different, a single user's interactions often demonstrate
Toward An Adaptive Command Line Interface (1997)
This paper explores different mechanisms for predicting the next command to be used for the UNIX command-line shell. We have collected command histories from 77 people, and have calculated the...
Experiments in UNIX Command Prediction (1997)
A good user interface is central to the success of most products. Our research is concerned with improving an interface by making it adaptive --- changing over time as it learns more about the user....
Rational Control of Multi-level Stochastic Design (1997)
J. Storrs Hall, Louis Steinberg, Brian D. Davison
Search in a complex design space (e.g. in VLSI design) is only feasible when it is factored into smaller ones. A common and useful factoring is the hierarchy of abstraction. Such problems are then...
An Adaptive UNIX Command-Line Assistant (1997)
This paper describes our ongoing efforts on building such patternrecognizing agents into a UNIX shell, in particular, through the addition of a personalized software agent --- a "personal...
Experiments in UNIX command prediction (1997)
A good user interface is central to the success of most products. Our research is concerned with improving an interface by making it adaptive |changing over time as it learns more about the user. In...
Experiments in UNIX command prediction (1997)
Most users demonstrate regularities in their work with a computer system. Even when a user’s activities are unique, those interactions often exhibit systematic patterns. Accordingly, there has been...
On the probabilistic logic and the McCulloch-Pitts neuron models / (1991)
A short background in neural networks and a comparison of the McCulloch-Pitts Neuron with the Probabilistic Logic Neuron, with experimental results of networks using each type of neruon to solve some...