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IJCAI
2007
15 years 7 months ago
Occam's Razor Just Got Sharper
Occam’s razor is the principle that, given two hypotheses consistent with the observed data, the simpler one should be preferred. Many machine learning algorithms follow this pr...
Saher Esmeir, Shaul Markovitch
IFIP
2001
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
Cultivating Recalcitrance in Information Systems Research
There is an ongoing debate about how to improve the quality of empirical research efforts in information systems. One of the persistent issues within the debate concerns the relat...
Carsten Sørensen, Edgar A. Whitley, Shirin ...
ISESE
2006
IEEE
16 years 13 days ago
Using observational pilot studies to test and improve lab packages
Controlled experiments are a key approach to evaluate and evolve our understanding of software engineering technologies. However, defining and running a controlled experiment is a...
Manoel G. Mendonça, Daniela Cruzes, Josemei...
ESEM
2007
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Using Context Distance Measurement to Analyze Results across Studies
Providing robust decision support for software engineering (SE) requires the collection of data across multiple contexts so that one can begin to elicit the context variables that...
Daniela Cruzes, Victor R. Basili, Forrest Shull, M...
UM
2007
Springer
16 years 15 days ago
Tailoring and the Efficiency of Information Seeking
Abstract. We present an empirical study assessing the impact of tailoring on information seeking tasks. Our aim was to evaluate whether providing tailored information would help pe...
Nathalie Colineau, Cécile Paris