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Trends in the quality of human-centric software engineering experiments – a quasi-experiment (2012)
Journal Article
(2012). Trends in the quality of human-centric software engineering experiments – a quasi-experiment. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 1002-1017. https://doi.org/10.1109/tse.2012.76

Context: Several text books and papers published between 2000 and 2002 have attempted to introduce experimental design and statistical methods to software engineers undertaking empirical studies. Objective: This paper investigates whether there has b... Read More about Trends in the quality of human-centric software engineering experiments – a quasi-experiment.

A Bayesian interpretation of the particle swarm optimization and its kernel extension. (2012)
Journal Article
(2012). A Bayesian interpretation of the particle swarm optimization and its kernel extension. PloS one, e48710 - ?. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0048710

Particle swarm optimization is a popular method for solving difficult optimization problems. There have been attempts to formulate the method in formal probabilistic or stochastic terms (e.g. bare bones particle swarm) with the aim to achieve more ge... Read More about A Bayesian interpretation of the particle swarm optimization and its kernel extension..

Three empirical studies on the agreement of reviewers about the quality of software engineering experiments (2012)
Journal Article
(2012). Three empirical studies on the agreement of reviewers about the quality of software engineering experiments. Information and Software Technology, 804 -819. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infsof.2011.11.008

Context
During systematic literature reviews it is necessary to assess the quality of empirical papers. Current guidelines suggest that two researchers should independently apply a quality checklist and any disagreements must be resolved. However, t... Read More about Three empirical studies on the agreement of reviewers about the quality of software engineering experiments.

Capturing Browsing Interests of Users into Web Usage Profiles (2012)
Presentation / Conference
Kabir, S., Mudur, S., & Shiri, N. (2012, July). Capturing Browsing Interests of Users into Web Usage Profiles. Presented at 26th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-12), Toronto, Ontario, Canada

We present a new weighted session similarity measure to capture the browsing interests of users in web usage profiles discovered from web log data. We base our similarity measure on the reasonable assumption that when users spend longer times on page... Read More about Capturing Browsing Interests of Users into Web Usage Profiles.

Fast Magnetic Flux Leakage Signal Inversion for the Reconstruction of Arbitrary Defect Profiles in Steel Using Finite Elements (2012)
Journal Article
Priewald, R. H., Magele, C., Ledger, P. D., Pearson, N. R., & Mason, J. S. D. (2013). Fast Magnetic Flux Leakage Signal Inversion for the Reconstruction of Arbitrary Defect Profiles in Steel Using Finite Elements. IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, 49(1), 506-516. https://doi.org/10.1109/tmag.2012.2208119

This paper proposes a fast and effective method for reconstructing arbitrary defect profiles in steel plates from magnetic flux leakage (MFL) measurements widely used in nondestructive testing (NDT) of oil storage tanks and pipelines. The inverse rec... Read More about Fast Magnetic Flux Leakage Signal Inversion for the Reconstruction of Arbitrary Defect Profiles in Steel Using Finite Elements.

Testing the Variability Selection Hypothesis: The Adoption of Social Learning in Increasingly Variable Environments (2012)
Journal Article
Channon. (2012). Testing the Variability Selection Hypothesis: The Adoption of Social Learning in Increasingly Variable Environments. Artificial Life, 317 -324. https://doi.org/10.7551/978-0-262-31050-5-ch042

The variability selection hypothesis predicts the adoption of versatile behaviors and survival strategies, in response to increasingly variable environments. In hominin evolution the most apparent adaptation for versatility is the adoption of social... Read More about Testing the Variability Selection Hypothesis: The Adoption of Social Learning in Increasingly Variable Environments.