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GECCO
2006
Springer
161views Optimization» more  GECCO 2006»
15 years 2 months ago
An empirical investigation of how and why neutrality affects evolutionary search
The effects of neutrality on evolutionary search have been considered in a number of interesting studies, the results of which, however, have been contradictory. Some researchers ...
Edgar Galván López, Riccardo Poli
ICDE
2011
IEEE
238views Database» more  ICDE 2011»
14 years 2 months ago
Join queries on uncertain data: Semantics and efficient processing
— Uncertain data is quite common nowadays in a variety of modern database applications. At the same time, the join operation is one of the most important but expensive operations...
Tingjian Ge
SC
2005
ACM
15 years 4 months ago
Parallel Programmer Productivity: A Case Study of Novice Parallel Programmers
In developing High-Performance Computing (HPC) software, time to solution is an important metric. This metric is comprised of two main components: the human effort required develo...
Lorin Hochstein, Jeffrey Carver, Forrest Shull, Si...
ICSE
2008
IEEE-ACM
15 years 11 months ago
On the difficulty of replicating human subjects studies in software engineering
Replications play an important role in verifying empirical results. In this paper, we discuss our experiences performing a literal replication of a human subjects experiment that ...
Jonathan Lung, Jorge Aranda, Steve M. Easterbrook,...
IFIP
2007
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
A Case Study on the Impact of Refactoring on Quality and Productivity in an Agile Team
Refactoring is a hot and controversial issue. Supporters claim that it helps increasing the quality of the code, making it easier to understand, modify and maintain. Moreover, the...
Raimund Moser, Pekka Abrahamsson, Witold Pedrycz, ...