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SCHOOL: ADVISORS: COMMITTEE MEMBERS: MPACT Status: Fully Complete Title: Evaluation of information retrieval systems: a simulation and cost approach. Abstract: This dissertation examines problems of how to evaluate an information retrieval system. Two specific approaches are explored. The first is a mathematical model for use in studying how to minimize the cost of operating a mechanized retrieval system. Through the use of cost analysis, the model provides a method for comparative evaluation between systems. The cost model divides the costs of a retrieval system into two components: system costs and user costs. In addition, it suggests that a trade off exists between the performance level of the system and the combination of user and system time that is expended in working with the system. With this approach it is possible to determine the allocation of user and system time that minimizes the total cost of operating the system. This allocation is done for a given performance level and for a given cost per unit of user and system time. |
MPACT Scores for Michael D. CooperA = 13 Advisors and Advisees Graphgenerating graph, please reload |
Students under Michael D. Cooper
ADVISEES:
- Barbara Sayles Nozik - University of California, Berkeley (1974)
- Nancy A. Van House - University of California, Berkeley (1979)
- Dennis Raymond Elchesen - University of California, Berkeley (1982)
- Eric Christian Van Vliet - University of California, Berkeley (1983)
- Ray R. Larson - University of California, Berkeley (1986)
- Yun-hua Shih - University of California, Berkeley (1989)
- Thomas Kevin Gillespie - University of California, Berkeley (1991)
- Stuart Allen Sutton - University of California, Berkeley (1991)
- Yasar Ahmet Tonta - University of California, Berkeley (1992)
- Denise Ann Dowding Bedford - University of California, Berkeley (1993)
- Shue-Leung Chan - University of California, Berkeley (1993)
- Lucy Kuntz - University of California, Berkeley (1999)
- Youngjin Kim - University of California, Berkeley (2002)
COMMITTEESHIPS:
- Charles Rennie Martell - University of California, Berkeley (1979)
- Mona A. Farid - University of California, Berkeley (1982)
- Howard Besser - University of California, Berkeley (1988)
- Barbara Ann Norgard - University of California, Berkeley (2002)