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ESEM
2007
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Value-Based Empirical Research Plan Evaluation
Empirical studies are crucial to gain evidence on the effects of software engineering methods and tools in defined contexts. However, empirical studies can be costly and thus need...
Stefan Biffl, Dietmar Winkler
AAAI
2007
13 years 7 months ago
Scaling Up: Solving POMDPs through Value Based Clustering
Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes (POMDPs) provide an appropriately rich model for agents operating under partial knowledge of the environment. Since finding an opti...
Yan Virin, Guy Shani, Solomon Eyal Shimony, Ronen ...
KI
2002
Springer
13 years 4 months ago
Advantages, Opportunities and Limits of Empirical Evaluations: Evaluating Adaptive Systems
While empirical evaluations are a common research method in some areas of Artificial Intelligence (AI), others still neglect this approach. This article outlines both the opportun...
Stephan Weibelzahl, Gerhard Weber
SIGSOFT
2004
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Empirical evaluation of defect projection models for widely-deployed production software systems
Defect-occurrence projection is necessary for the development of methods to mitigate the risks of software defect occurrences. In this paper, we examine user-reported software def...
Paul Luo Li, Mary Shaw, James D. Herbsleb, Bonnie ...
BCSHCI
2007
13 years 6 months ago
A pattern-based usability inspection method: first empirical performance measures and future issues
The Usability Pattern Inspection (UPI) is a new usability inspection method designed for the added downstream utility of producing concrete design recommendations. This paper prov...
Martin Schmettow, Sabine Niebuhr