Dr Tassos Tombros

Lecturer
Email: a.tombros@qmul.ac.ukTelephone: +44 20 7882 5241Room Number: Peter Landin, CS 411Website: http://www.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/~tassosOffice Hours: Monday 12:00-13:30, Wednesday 11:00-12:00
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
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Sahib NG, Tombros A, Stockman T (2015). Evaluating a search interface for visually impaired searchers. nameOfConference
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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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Tao Y, Tombros A (2014). Investigating collaborative sensemaking behavior in collaborative information seeking. nameOfConference
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Sahib NG, Tombros A, Stockman T (2014). Investigating the Behavior of Visually Impaired Users for Multi-session Search Tasks. nameOfConference
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Tao Y, Tombros A (2013). An Exploratory Study of Sensemaking in Collaborative Information Seeking.. 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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Sahib NG, Tombros A, Stockman T (2012). A Comparative Analysis of the Information-Seeking Behavior of Visually Impaired and Sighted Searchers. nameOfConference
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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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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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Malik S, Larsen B, Tombros A (2007). Report on the INEX 2005 interactive track.. 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
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Tombros A, Ruthven I, Jose JM (2005). How users assess web pages for information seeking. nameOfConference
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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, van Rijsbergen CJ (2004). Query-sensitive similarity measures for information retrieval. nameOfConference
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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 (2000). Users' perception of relevance of spoken documents. nameOfConference