Are user runtime estimates inherently inaccurate?

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

Volumn 3277, Issue , 2005, Pages 253-263

  Lee, Cynthia Bailey ^a,b   Schwartzman, Yael ^a   Hardy, Jennifer ^a   Snavely, Allan ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; JOB ANALYSIS; PROBLEM SOLVING; PROGRAM DOCUMENTATION; SCHEDULING;

JOB SCHEDULING; PERENNIAL PROBLEMS; POTENTIAL BENEFITS; RUNTIME ESTIMATES;

USER INTERFACES;

EID: 23944500342     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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