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SIGIR
2002
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
Improving realism of topic tracking evaluation
Topic tracking and information filtering are models of interactive tasks, but their evaluations are generally done in a way that does not reflect likely usage. The models either f...
Anton Leuski, James Allan
HAPTICS
2005
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Event-Based Haptics and Acceleration Matching: Portraying and Assessing the Realism of Contact
Contact in a typical haptic environment resembles the experience of tapping on soft foam, rather than on a hard object. Event-based, high-frequency transient forces must be superi...
Katherine J. Kuchenbecker, Jonathan Fiene, Gü...
SLOGICA
2008
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13 years 7 months ago
Structural Realism, Scientific Change, and Partial Structures
Abstract. Scientific change has two important dimensions: conceptual change and structural change. In this paper, I argue that the existence of conceptual change brings serious dif...
Otávio A. S. Bueno
WONS
2005
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Building a Better Wireless Mousetrap: Need for More Realism in Simulations
Reliable network simulators are important tools for research and development in the field of wireless communication. Although the ns-2 simulator is quite popular for testing wire...
Matthias Wellens, Marina Petrova, Janne Riihij&aum...
ECIS
2003
13 years 9 months ago
A critique of statistical modelling from a critical realist perspective
Most published research in information systems is underpinned by a positivist or empiricist philosophy. This generally involves the collection of quantitative data and its subsequ...
John Mingers