Questions tagged [empirical-research]
Questions about methods that empirically measure the quality of computer science models and techniques when applied to real-world scenarios.
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Which maintainability metric has the strongest empirical evidence?
There are lots of code metrics that claim to measure maintainability, e.g. CK and Li & Henry metric suits. However, it seems elusive to me to find a meta-study that compares different metrics to ...
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Uniform convergence of union of hypothesis
Let $H_{1}$ and $H_{2}$ are two hypothesis classes over some domain $X$1.
If both $H_{1}$ and
$H_{2}$ have the uniform convergence property, then do $H_{1}$ U $H_{2}$ have uniform convergence?
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Reliability of information on large social networks like Wikipedia [closed]
I was going through the playlist of an online course on Social Network Analysis offered by the Indian Institute of Technology (Madras), when I came across the claim that "when a lot of people get ...
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How to validate usability of software frameworks
My thesis will produce a software framework that can be used by programmers to solve problems in a paticular domain.
One of the case studies I want to do to verify the contribution I'm making is to ...
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Are there many empirical results about which metaheuristics are well-suited for which problem domains?
One of the nice things about genetic algorithms is that they can easily be used for a diverse array of problem domains, whereas PSO for example seems best-suited for candidates of real-valued vectors (...
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Gate/transistor number and program length measures of computational complexity?
Are there scaling concepts regarding the number of components needed and minimum program length needed to solve a problem of some complexity?
For example, problems are characterized by O(.) measures ...
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Data normalization when control has multiple values in CS/CE
(This question was originally posted at https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/68675 but was considered too specific for Academia.)
In computer science/engineering research papers relating to ...
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Is this Time analysis strategy right?
I'm working in the time analysis for an algorithm with two optional optimizations variant applied and followed next approach:
Create inputs of different lengths for the algorithm
Using these inputs ...
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Tag-free garbage collection for object oriented languages
I'm looking around for a good garbage collection technique for my language and found this paper, where Benjamin Goldberg describes a garbage collection technique for strongly typed languages, which ...
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Buffering packets vs. low latency routing [closed]
I am considering strategies to compare the performance of routers with buffers vs. their lower latency counterparts in a simple network setting (N clients communicating with each other randomly ...
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Empirical studies about benefits of Q&A sites for programming
I'm looking for empirical papers which investigate if a user can benefit from Q&A sites like Stack Overflow. I welcome any papers related to this topic, e.g:
an experiment, investigating if a ...
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Ideal number of participants for evaluation of development approach / software architecture
For my thesis, I have created a development approach (consisting of schemes, an application template and prototype code) that should make it easier to develop and adapt applications for a specific ...
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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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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?
I have noticed in my short academic life that many published papers in our area sometimes do not have much rigor regarding statistics. This is not just an assumption; I have heard professors say the ...
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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 ...
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