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PROMISE
2010
13 years 6 months ago
Defect cost flow model: a Bayesian network for predicting defect correction effort
Background. Software defect prediction has been one of the central topics of software engineering. Predicted defect counts have been used mainly to assess software quality and est...
Thomas Schulz, Lukasz Radlinski, Thomas Gorges, Wo...
WAW
2010
Springer
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13 years 9 months ago
Modeling Traffic on the Web Graph
Abstract. Analysis of aggregate and individual Web requests shows that PageRank is a poor predictor of traffic. We use empirical data to characterize properties of Web traffic not ...
Mark R. Meiss, Bruno Gonçalves, Jose J. Ram...
MIS
2007
Springer
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13 years 10 months ago
The application of fluid mobility modelling in wireless cellular networks
Mobility models, synthetic or trace, try to accurately model the movement of a single user or a group of users. Models are used in simulators and emulators to investigate the cons...
Ronan J. Skehill, Sean McGrath
ACL
2001
14 years 16 days ago
An Empirically Motivated Algorithm for the Generation of Multimodal Referring Expressions
We describe an algorithm for generating multimodal referring expressions, based on empirical data. The main novelties are (1) a decision to point based on both the efficiency of p...
Ielka van der Sluis
WSC
2007
14 years 1 months ago
Empirical investigations of conceptual modeling and the modeling process
Conceptual modeling, deciding what to include in the model, is a very important task in the modeling process. However, it has so far received relatively little attention in the li...
Wang Wang, Roger J. Brooks
EUROMICRO
2004
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Using Academic Courses for Empirical Validation of Software Development Processes
Software Process Improvement needs sound empirical data gathered from a range of empirical studies such as controlled experiments or case studies. However, conducting empirical st...
Marcus Ciolkowski, Dirk Muthig, Jörg Rech
ISPW
1994
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Data collection in a process-sensitive software engineering environment
All software projects are experiments in the sense of the scientific method because the outcomes are not known in advance, theories and hypotheses may be tested in the project emp...
P. Giese, Barbara Hoisl, Christopher M. Lott, H. D...
ACMDIS
2000
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
On the Contributions of Different Empirical Data in Usability Testing
Many sources of empirical data can be used to evaluate an interface (e.g., time to learn, time to perform benchmark tasks, number of errors on benchmark tasks, answers on question...
Maria Ebling, Bonnie E. John
HICSS
2008
IEEE
104views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2008»
14 years 5 months ago
An Empirical Examination of Open Standards Development
This project uses empirical data to provide insights into the impact of open standards. This work moves beyond the existing literature by considering a large number of open standa...
Rajiv C. Shah, Jay P. Kesan
WWW
2003
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
An Effective Complete-Web Recommender System
There are a number of recommendation systems that can suggest the webpages, within a single website, that other (purportedly similar) users have visited. By contrast, our goal is ...
Gerald Häubl, Russell Greiner, Tingshao Zhu