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SEKE
2004
Springer
14 years 25 days ago
Automated Assistance for Eliciting User Expectations
People often use software for mundane tasks and expect it to be dependable enough for their needs. Unfortunately, the incomplete and imprecise specifications of such everyday sof...
Orna Raz, Rebecca B. Buchheit, Mary Shaw, Philip K...
FOCS
2003
IEEE
14 years 23 days ago
Always Good Turing: Asymptotically Optimal Probability Estimation
While deciphering the Enigma Code during World War II, I.J. Good and A.M. Turing considered the problem of estimating a probability distribution from a sample of data. They derive...
Alon Orlitsky, Narayana P. Santhanam, Junan Zhang
FECS
2006
100views Education» more  FECS 2006»
13 years 9 months ago
Pair Programming: Not for Everyone?
- Developments in CS1 pedagogy seek to improve the capabilities of students in their understanding of how to write programs. This involves learning how to solve various types of pr...
Jacob P. Somervell
EUSFLAT
2001
127views Fuzzy Logic» more  EUSFLAT 2001»
13 years 9 months ago
Soft computing in investment appraisal
Standard financial techniques neglect extreme situations and regards large market shifts as too unlikely to matter. Such approach accounts for what occurs most of the time in the ...
Antoaneta Serguieva, John Hunter, Tatiana Kalganov...
AAAI
1992
13 years 8 months ago
From Statistics to Beliefs
An intelligent agent uses known facts, including statistical knowledge, to assign degrees of belief to assertions it is uncertain about. We investigate three principled techniques...
Fahiem Bacchus, Adam J. Grove, Daphne Koller, Jose...