Should computer scientists experiment more?

Computer

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 32-40

  Tichy, Walter F ^a,b,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^b Carnegie Group   (United States)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COSTS; EXPERIMENTS; TECHNOLOGY; THEORY;

COMPUTER SCIENTISTS OBJECTIONS; EXPERIMENTATION;

COMPUTER SCIENCE;

EID: 0032070168     PISSN: 00189162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/2.675631     Document Type: Article

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