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2011
ACM
15 years 1 months ago
Empirical software engineering at Microsoft Research
We describe the activities of the Empirical Software Engineering (ESE) group at Microsoft Research. We highlight our research themes and activities using examples from our researc...
Christian Bird, Brendan Murphy, Nachiappan Nagappa...
CSCW
2011
ACM
15 years 1 months ago
CoupleVIBE: mobile implicit communication to improve awareness for (long-distance) couples
Long-distance couples face considerable communication challenges in their relationships. Unlike collocated couples, long-distance couples lack awareness cues associated with physi...
Elizabeth Bales, Kevin A. Li, William Griwsold
CSDA
2011
15 years 1 months ago
Inferences on Weibull parameters with conventional type-I censoring
In this article we consider the statistical inferences of the unknown parameters of a Weibull distribution when the data are Type-I censored. It is well known that the maximum lik...
Avijit Joarder, Hare Krishna, Debasis Kundu
CSDA
2011
15 years 1 months ago
Mapping electron density in the ionosphere: A principal component MCMC algorithm
The outer layers of the Earth’s atmosphere are known as the ionosphere, a plasma of free electrons and positively charged atomic ions. The electron density of the ionosphere var...
Eman Khorsheed, Merrilee Hurn, Christopher Jenniso...
CSDA
2011
15 years 1 months ago
Approximate forward-backward algorithm for a switching linear Gaussian model
Motivated by the application of seismic inversion in the petroleum industry we consider a hidden Markov model with two hidden layers. The bottom layer is a Markov chain and given ...
Hugo Hammer, Håkon Tjelmeland