We introduce and validate bootstrap techniques to compute confidence intervals that quantify the effect of test-collection variability on average precision (AP) and mean average...
We studied the effects of pair programming in a team context on productivity, defects, design quality, knowledge transfer and enjoyment of work. Randomly formed three pair program...
Good data layouts improve cache and TLB performance of object-oriented software, but unfortunately, selecting an optimal data layout a priori is NP-hard. This paper introduces layo...
There is a chronic lack of shared application domains to test the research models and agent architectures on areas like negotiation, argumentation, trust and reputation. In this d...
Angela Fabregues, David Navarro, Alejandro Serrano...
Many interesting large-scale systems are distributed systems of multiple communicating components. Such systems can be very hard to debug, especially when they exhibit poor perfor...
Marcos Kawazoe Aguilera, Jeffrey C. Mogul, Janet L...