Questions about methods that empirically measure the quality of computer science models and techniques when applied to real-world scenarios.
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Code metric for code redundancy or code cloning
Is there a common code metric for "code redundancy" or "code cloning"?
I think I read somewhere a definition, where the LOC (lines of code) of
the redundant code was measured.
I also searched for ...
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performance between the data structures
I have developed two existing data structures and I want to see their performances over a certain algorithm. In this case I use Dijkstra's algorithm with binary and Fibonacci heaps. Just to ask, if I ...
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Comparing variations of A*
I am running some experiments with a maze, and trying different variations of A*. Based on my experiments, I have been able to form some opinion (that at least in those cases, graph checking is better ...
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What is an acceptable Software Development skill for Computer Science researcher [closed]
I'm six months away from getting MSc in computer Engineering and I am reading papers to write a journal and thesis; I have wrote one paper. But for the past one and half year, I felt like the whole ...
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How can I measure the usability of a catalogue?
This question might seems vague but heres the context:
When we are focusing on HCI we would most likely be interested on knowing first how the user usually deals with a certain object. We then try to ...
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Is there evidence that using dynamic languages has an impact on productivity?
I am wondering if there are any experiments that show the existence or the non-existence of a correlation between usage of a dynamic language (such as Python, Ruby, or even languages that run on the ...
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Is it viable to use an HMM to evaluate how well a catalogue is used?
I was interested on evaluating a catalogue that students would be using to observe how is it being used probabilistically.
The catalogue works by choosing cells in a temporal sequence, so for ...
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How are statistics being applied in computer science to evaluate accuracy in research claims?
This is my first post here. I am currently an undergraduate student with exposure to software engineer research and thought that this question would be appropriate here instead of stack overflow or ...
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CPU frequency per year
I know that since ~2004, Moore's law stopped working for CPU clock speed.
I'm looking for a graph showing this, but am unable to find it: most charts out there show the transistor count or the ...
