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INFSOF
2006
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13 years 10 months ago
How large are software cost overruns? A review of the 1994 CHAOS report
: The Standish Group reported in 1994 that the average cost overrun of software projects was as high as 189%. This cost overrun number is used as input in recent governmental repor...
Magne Jørgensen, Kjetil Moløkken-&Os...
CORR
2000
Springer
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How to Evaluate your Question Answering System Every Day and Still Get Real Work Done
In this paper, we report on Qaviar, an experimental automated evaluation system for question answering applications. The goal of our research was to find an automatically calculat...
Eric Breck, John D. Burger, Lisa Ferro, Lynette Hi...
IEEEHPCS
2010
13 years 8 months ago
Transactional Memory: How to perform load adaption in a simple and distributed manner
We analyze and present different strategies to adapt the load in transactional memory systems based on contention. Our experimental results show a substantial overall improvement ...
David Hasenfratz, Johannes Schneider, Roger Watten...
IVA
2010
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
How a Virtual Agent Should Smile? - Morphological and Dynamic Characteristics of Virtual Agent's Smiles
A smile may communicate different meanings depending on subtle characteristics of the facial expression. In this article, we have studied the morphological and dynamic characteris...
Magalie Ochs, Radoslaw Niewiadomski, Catherine Pel...
SAB
2010
Springer
110views Optimization» more  SAB 2010»
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How to Pick the Right One: Investigating Tradeoffs among Female Mate Choice Strategies in Treefrogs
Two main theories of female mate choice, that females either pick the best from the n closest males (best-of-n) or the closest with some minimum quality (min-threshold), make diffe...
Matthias Scheutz, Jack Harris, Sunny K. Boyd