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ICST
2011
IEEE
12 years 8 months ago
An Empirical Study on the Relation between Dependency Neighborhoods and Failures
—Changing source code in large software systems is complex and requires a good understanding of dependencies between software components. Modification to components with little ...
Thomas Zimmermann, Nachiappan Nagappan, Kim Herzig...
SIGSOFT
2010
ACM
13 years 2 months ago
Validity concerns in software engineering research
Empirical studies that use software repository artifacts have become popular in the last decade due to the ready availability of open source project archives. In this paper, we su...
Hyrum K. Wright, Miryung Kim, Dewayne E. Perry
COLT
2010
Springer
13 years 2 months ago
Sparse Recovery in Convex Hulls of Infinite Dictionaries
Let S be an arbitrary measurable space, T R and (X, Y ) be a random couple in S
Vladimir Koltchinskii, Stas Minsker
IJCAI
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Occam's Razor Just Got Sharper
Occam’s razor is the principle that, given two hypotheses consistent with the observed data, the simpler one should be preferred. Many machine learning algorithms follow this pr...
Saher Esmeir, Shaul Markovitch
FOIS
2010
13 years 6 months ago
Founding properties on measurement
Abstract. Taking for granted an ontological standpoint independent of any empirical or epistemological perspective, philosophical theories of properties are actually quite rarely a...
Claudio Masolo
WSC
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Using empirical demand data and common random numbers in an agent-based simulation of a distribution network
Agent-based simulation provides a methodology to investigate complex systems behavior, such as supply chains, while incorporating many empirical elements relative to both systems ...
William J. Sawaya
EUROMICRO
2004
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Using Academic Courses for Empirical Validation of Software Development Processes
Software Process Improvement needs sound empirical data gathered from a range of empirical studies such as controlled experiments or case studies. However, conducting empirical st...
Marcus Ciolkowski, Dirk Muthig, Jörg Rech
ESEM
2007
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Automated Information Extraction from Empirical Software Engineering Literature: Is that possible?
The number of scientific publications is constantly increasing, and the results published on Empirical Software Engineering are growing even faster. Some software engineering publ...
Daniela Cruzes, Victor R. Basili, Forrest Shull, M...
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