Empirical evaluation in Computer Science research published by ACM

Information and Software Technology

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1081-1085

  Wainer, Jacques ^a   Novoa Barsottini, Claudia G ^b   Lacerda, Danilo ^a   Magalhães de Marco, Leandro Rodrigues ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Empirical evaluation; Experimentation; Research evaluation; Systematic review

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SCIENCE; RESEARCH;

COMPUTER SCIENCE RESEARCHES; DESIGN AND MODELING; EMPIRICAL EVALUATION; EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATIONS; EXPERIMENTATION; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; PAPER CATEGORIES; QUANTITATIVE STUDIES; RESEARCH EVALUATION; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

COMPUTERS;

EID: 62349140167     PISSN: 09505849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.infsof.2009.01.002     Document Type: Article

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