201 research outputs found
Finding Your Literature Match -- A Recommender System
The universe of potentially interesting, searchable literature is expanding
continuously. Besides the normal expansion, there is an additional influx of
literature because of interdisciplinary boundaries becoming more and more
diffuse. Hence, the need for accurate, efficient and intelligent search tools
is bigger than ever. Even with a sophisticated search engine, looking for
information can still result in overwhelming results. An overload of
information has the intrinsic danger of scaring visitors away, and any
organization, for-profit or not-for-profit, in the business of providing
scholarly information wants to capture and keep the attention of its target
audience. Publishers and search engine engineers alike will benefit from a
service that is able to provide visitors with recommendations that closely meet
their interests. Providing visitors with special deals, new options and
highlights may be interesting to a certain degree, but what makes more sense
(especially from a commercial point of view) than to let visitors do most of
the work by the mere action of making choices? Hiring psychics is not an
option, so a technological solution is needed to recommend items that a visitor
is likely to be looking for. In this presentation we will introduce such a
solution and argue that it is practically feasible to incorporate this approach
into a useful addition to any information retrieval system with enough usage.Comment: Contribution to the proceedings of the colloquium Future Professional
Communication in Astronomy II, 13-14 April 2010, Cambridge, Massachusetts. 11
pages, 4 figures
E-prints and Journal Articles in Astronomy: a Productive Co-existence
Are the e-prints (electronic preprints) from the arXiv repository being used
instead of the journal articles? In this paper we show that the e-prints have
not undermined the usage of journal papers in the astrophysics community. As
soon as the journal article is published, the astronomical community prefers to
read the journal article and the use of e-prints through the NASA Astrophysics
Data System drops to zero. This suggests that the majority of astronomers have
access to institutional subscriptions and that they choose to read the journal
article when given the choice. Within the NASA Astrophysics Data System they
are given this choice, because the e-print and the journal article are treated
equally, since both are just one click away. In other words, the e-prints have
not undermined journal use in the astrophysics community and thus currently do
not pose a financial threat to the publishers. We present readership data for
the arXiv category "astro-ph" and the 4 core journals in astronomy
(Astrophysical Journal, Astronomical Journal, Monthly Notices of the Royal
Astronomical Society and Astronomy & Astrophysics). Furthermore, we show that
the half-life (the point where the use of an article drops to half the use of a
newly published article) for an e-print is shorter than for a journal paper.
The ADS is funded by NASA Grant NNG06GG68G. arXiv receives funding from NSF
award #0404553Comment: 8 pages, 4 figures, submitted to Learned Publishin
Spin-polarized electron beam generation in the colliding-pulse injection scheme
Employing colliding-pulse injection has been shown to enable high-quality
electron beams to be generated from laser-plasma accelerators. Here by
leveraging test particle simulations, Hamiltonian analysis, and
multidimensional particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations, we lay the theoretical
framework of spin-polarized electron beam generation in the colliding-pulse
injection scheme. Furthermore, we show that this scheme enables the production
of quasi-monoenergetic electron beams in excess of 80\% polarization and tens
pC charge with commercial 10-TW-class laser systems.Comment: 11 pages, 10 figure
Dynamic Spanning Trees for connectivity queries on fully-dynamic undirected graphs
Answering connectivity queries is fundamental to fully dynamic
graphs where edges and vertices are inserted and deleted frequently.
Existing work proposes data structures and algorithms with worst
case guarantees. We propose a new data structure, the dynamic
tree (D-tree), together with algorithms to construct and maintain it.
The D-tree is the first data structure that scales to fully dynamic
graphs with millions of vertices and edges and, on average, answers
connectivity queries much faster than data structures with worst
case guarantees
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