Dr Tassos Tombros

Senior Lecturer; Director of Education
Email: a.tombros@qmul.ac.ukRoom Number: Peter Landin, CS 306 Website: http://www.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/~tassosOffice Hours: Wednesday, 10:00-11:30
Teaching
Operating Systems (Undergraduate)
What is an Operating System for and how does it work? How can a computer run, or appear to run, many programs at once? This module introduces Operating Systems, with a combination of study of the principles and practical skills in scripting and monitoring an Operating System kernel. Concepts of processes and concurrency are introduced in the context of Operating Systems and then pursued further as a tool for an application programmer wishing to exploit the full potential of a multicore processor. The module prepares students for further studies in distributed systems and high performance computing at the next level.
Probability and Matrices (Undergraduate)
This module covers: Probability theory Counting permutations and combinations Conditional probabilities Bayesian probability Random variables and probability models Vector and matrix algebra Linear equations Vector spaces Linear combinations, linear independence
Research
Research Interests:
Document clustering and summarisation, personalisation, relevance feedback, interactive IR and task-based evaluation of IR systems, presentation of retrieval results.
Publications
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Marengo L, Fazekas TA (2017). I Wonder... Inquiry Techniques as a Method to Gain Insights into People's Encounters with Visual Art. International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI’17), 9-14 July, Vancouver, Canada
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Tao Y, Tombros A (2017). How collaborators make sense of tasks together: A comparative analysis of collaborative sensemaking behavior in collaborative information-seeking tasks. nameOfConference
DOI: 10.1002/asi.23693
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Al-Thani D, Stockman T, Tombros A (2015). The effects of cross-modal collaboration on the stages of information seeking. nameOfConference
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Sahib NG, Tombros A, Stockman T (2015). Evaluating a search interface for visually impaired searchers. nameOfConference
DOI: 10.1002/asi.23325
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Tao Y, Tombros A (2014). Investigating collaborative sensemaking behavior in collaborative information seeking. nameOfConference
DOI: 10.1109/MC.2014.64
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Sahib NG, Tombros A, Stockman T (2014). Investigating the Behavior of Visually Impaired Users for Multi-session Search Tasks. nameOfConference
DOI: 10.1002/asi.22955
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Tao Y, Tombros A (2013). An Exploratory Study of Sensemaking in Collaborative Information Seeking.. nameOfConference
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Al-Thani D, Stockman T, Tombros A (2013). Cross-modal collaborative information seeking (CCIS): An exploratory study. nameOfConference
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Sahib NG, Stockman T, Tombros A et al. (2013). Participatory Design with Blind Users: A Scenario-Based Approach.. nameOfConference
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Diriye A, Blandford A, Tombros A et al. (2013). The Role of Search Interface Features during Information Seeking.. nameOfConference
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Sahib NG, Tombros A, Stockman T (2012). A Comparative Analysis of the Information-Seeking Behavior of Visually Impaired and Sighted Searchers. nameOfConference
DOI: 10.1002/asi.21696
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Diriye A, Tombros A, Blandford A (2012). A Little Interaction Can Go a Long Way: Enriching the Query Formulation Process.. nameOfConference
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Szlavik Z, Tombros A, Lalmas M (2012). Summarisation of the logical structure of XML documents. nameOfConference
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Diriye A, Blandford A, Tombros A (2010). When is system support effective?. Proceedings of the third symposium on Information interaction in context
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Gooda Sahib N, Tombros A, Ruthven I (2010). Enabling Interactive Query Expansion through Eliciting the Potential Effect of Expansion Terms. European Conference on Information Retrieval
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Diriye A, Blandford A, Tombros A (2010). Exploring the Impact of Search Interface Features on Search Tasks. nameOfConference
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Diriye A, Blandford A, Tombros A (2009). A polyrepresentational approach to interactive query expansion. Proceedings of the 9th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
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Campana M, Tombros A (2009). Incremental Personalised Summarisation with Novelty Detection. nameOfConference
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Forst JF, Tombros A, Roelleke T (2009). Less Is More: Maximal Marginal Relevance as a Summarisation Feature. nameOfConference
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Lalmas M, Tombros A, Borlund P et al. (2009). Second international symposium on information interaction in context.. nameOfConference
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Larsen B, Malik S, Tombros A (2008). A Comparison of Interactive and Ad-Hoc Relevance Assessments. nameOfConference
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Amini MR, Tombros A, Usunier N et al. (2007). Learning-based summarisation of XML documents. nameOfConference
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LALMAS M, TOMBROS A (2007). Evaluating XML retrieval effectiveness at INEX. nameOfConference
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Szlavik Z, Tombros A, Lalmas M (2007). Feature- and query-based table of contents generation for XML documents. nameOfConference
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Lalmas M, Tombros A (2007). INEX 2002-2006: Understanding XML retrieval evaluation. nameOfConference
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Malik S, Larsen B, Tombros A (2007). Report on the INEX 2005 interactive track.. nameOfConference
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Malik S, Tombros A, Larsen B (2007). The interactive track at INEX 2006. nameOfConference
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LALMAS M, MACFARLANE A, RUGER S et al. (2006). Advances in Information Retrieval: 28th European Conference on IR Research, Proceedings (ECIR 2006). nameOfConference
DOI: 10.1007/11735106
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Malik S, Klas CP, Fuhr N et al. (2006). Designing a user interface for interactive retrieval of structured documents - Lessons learned from the INEX interactive track. nameOfConference
DOI: 10.1007/11863878_25
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Szlávik Z, Tombros A, Lalmas M (2006). Investigating the use of summarisation for interactive XML retrieval.. nameOfConference
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Larsen B, Tombros A, Malik S (2006). Is XML retrieval meaningful to users?: searcher preferences for full documents vs. elements.. nameOfConference
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Larsen B, Malik S, Tombros A (2006). The Interactive Track at INEX 2005. nameOfConference
DOI: 10.1007/11766278_30
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Szlavik Z, Tombros A, Lalmas M (2006). The use of summaries in XML retrieval. nameOfConference
DOI: 10.1007/11863878_7
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Betsi S, Lalmas M, Tombros A et al. (2006). User expectations from XML element retrieval.. nameOfConference
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Tombros A, Ruthven I, Jose JM (2005). How users assess web pages for information seeking. nameOfConference
DOI: 10.1002/asi.20106
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Lalmas M, TOMBROS A, Gallinari P et al. (2005). Learning to Summarise XML Documents using Content and Structure. Proceedings of the ACM 14th Conference on Knowledge and Information Management (CIKM 2005), to appear
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TOMBROS A, Larsen B, Malik S (2005). Report on the INEX 2004 interactive track. nameOfConference
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Tombros A, Larsen B, Malik S (2005). The interactive track at INEX 2004. nameOfConference
DOI: 10.1007/11424550_33
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Tombros A, van Rijsbergen CJ (2004). Query-sensitive similarity measures for information retrieval. nameOfConference
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Tombros A, Jose JM, Ruthven I (2003). Clustering top-ranking sentences for information access. nameOfConference
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TOMBROS A, Jose J, Ruthven I (2003). Searchers' criteria for assessing web pages. Proceedings on the 26th ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval
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Tombros A, Villa R, Van Rijsbergen CJ (2002). The effectiveness of query-specific hierarchic clustering in information retrieval. nameOfConference
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TOMBROS A, Crestani F, Sweeney S (2002). Mobile delivery of news using hierarchical query-biased summaries. 17th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing Information Access and Retrieval Pack (SAC-IARS'02)
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TOMBROS A, Rijsbergen CJ (2001). Query-sensitive similarity measures for the calculation of interdocument relationship. 10th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management
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Tombros A, Crestani F (2000). Users' perception of relevance of spoken documents. nameOfConference
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Tombros A, Sanderson M (1998). Advantages of query biased summaries in information retrieval. Proceedings of the 21st annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval (ACM SIGIR'98)
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