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KI
2002
Springer
14 years 9 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
AVI
2010
14 years 11 months ago
About composing our own smart home
This paper reports on an empirical study designed as a follow-up of a theoretical model intended to support reasoning about the composition of smart artifacts by end-users. We hav...
Joëlle Coutaz, Emeric Fontaine, Nadine Mandra...
ACL
2009
14 years 7 months ago
Extracting Paraphrases of Technical Terms from Noisy Parallel Software Corpora
In this paper, we study the problem of extracting technical paraphrases from a parallel software corpus, namely, a collection of duplicate bug reports. Paraphrase acquisition is a...
Xiaoyin Wang, David Lo, Jing Jiang, Lu Zhang, Hong...
SIGSOFT
2007
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Does a programmer's activity indicate knowledge of code?
The practice of software development can likely be improved if an externalized model of each programmer's knowledge of a particular code base is available. Some tools already...
Thomas Fritz, Gail C. Murphy, Emily Hill
ICSM
2007
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
The Social Context of Software Maintenance
Software maintenance is a highly collaborative activity whose social context is rarely addressed. To explore this context, we conducted an ethnographic study at a large technology...
Jonathan Sillito, Eleanor Wynn