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IJIS
2006
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13 years 6 months ago
Optimal choice of granularity in commonsense estimation: Why half-orders of magnitude?
It has been observed that when people make crude estimates, they feel comfortable choosing between alternatives which differ by a half-order of magnitude (e.g., were there 100, 30...
Jerry R. Hobbs, Vladik Kreinovich
EICS
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
How assessing plasticity design choices can improve UI quality: a case study
In Human Computer Interaction, plasticity refers to the capacity of User Interfaces (UIs) to withstand variations of context of use while preserving quality in use. Frequently, in...
Audrey Serna, Gaëlle Calvary, Dominique L. Sc...
COGSCI
2010
75views more  COGSCI 2010»
13 years 6 months ago
Moral Principles or Consumer Preferences? Alternative Framings of the Trolley Problem
We created paired moral dilemmas with minimal contrasts in wording, a research strategy that has been advocated as a way to empirically establish principles operative in a domain-...
Tage S. Rai, Keith J. Holyoak
WADS
1989
Springer
84views Algorithms» more  WADS 1989»
13 years 10 months ago
Skip Lists: A Probabilistic Alternative to Balanced Trees
rees can be used for representing abstract data types such as dictionaries and ordered lists. They work well when the elements are inserted in a random order. Some sequences of ope...
William Pugh
EURODAC
1995
IEEE
112views VHDL» more  EURODAC 1995»
13 years 9 months ago
On implementation choices for iterative improvement partitioning algorithms
Iterative improvement partitioning algorithms such as the FM algorithm of Fiduccia and Mattheyses 8 , the algorithm of Krishnamurthy 13 , and Sanchis's extensions of these al...
Lars W. Hagen, Dennis J.-H. Huang, Andrew B. Kahng