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SIGMOD
2003
ACM
118views Database» more  SIGMOD 2003»
14 years 9 months ago
Improving the Efficiency of Database-System Teaching
The education industry has a very poor record of productivity gains. In this brief article, I outline some of the ways the teaching of a college course in database systems could b...
Jeffrey D. Ullman
ICSE
2005
IEEE-ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Explicit assumptions enrich architectural models
Design for change is a well-known adagium in software engineering. We separate concerns, employ well-designed interfaces, and the like to ease evolution of the systems we build. W...
Patricia Lago, Hans van Vliet
EDBTW
2010
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Quantile-based bootstrap methods to generate continuous synthetic data
To face the increasing demand from users, National Statistical Institutes (NSI) release different information products. The dissemination of this information should be performed ...
Daniela Ichim
KDD
2009
ACM
183views Data Mining» more  KDD 2009»
14 years 3 months ago
Financial incentives and the "performance of crowds"
The relationship between financial incentives and performance, long of interest to social scientists, has gained new relevance with the advent of web-based “crowd-sourcing” mo...
Winter A. Mason, Duncan J. Watts
MODELS
2009
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Feature-oriented programming with Ruby
Features identify core characteristics of software in order to produce families of programs. Through configuration, different variants of a program can be composed. Our approach...
Sebastian Günther, Sagar Sunkle