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Experiments as Research Validation: Have We Gone Too Far?
- Source :
- Communications of the ACM; Sep2015, Vol. 58 Issue 9, p37-39, 3p
- Publication Year :
- 2015
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Abstract
- The article offers the author's comments on the role of experimental evidence in computer science research. According to the author, sorting algorithms were a major issue for computer scientists in the 1960s. He adds that experiments conducted on specialized data should not be accepted under any circumstances.
- Subjects :
- COMPUTER science research
EXPERIMENTS
ALGORITHMS
COMPUTER scientists
SCIENCE
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00010782
- Volume :
- 58
- Issue :
- 9
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Communications of the ACM
- Publication Type :
- Periodical
- Accession number :
- 109252392
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1145/2699405