I Am a Scientist, Not a Philosopher!

Peisert, Sean; Bishop, Matt

doi:10.1109/msp.2007.84

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“…In many arguments for experimental computer science, by “experiment” the author explicitly or implicitly means “controlled experiment” but not always for the same reasons. Peisert [ 104 ] advocated controlled experiments for research on computer security, and their vision was that it promotes increased generalizability and better justified claims about products. Morrison and Snodgrass [ 71 ] wanted to see more generalizable results in software development.…”

Section: Five Views On Experimental Computer Sciencementioning

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Experiments in Computing: A Survey

Tedre

Moisseinen

2014

The Scientific World Journal

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Experiments play a central role in science. The role of experiments in computing is, however, unclear. Questions about the relevance of experiments in computing attracted little attention until the 1980s. As the discipline then saw a push towards experimental computer science, a variety of technically, theoretically, and empirically oriented views on experiments emerged. As a consequence of those debates, today's computing fields use experiments and experiment terminology in a variety of ways. This paper analyzes experimentation debates in computing. It presents five ways in which debaters have conceptualized experiments in computing: feasibility experiment, trial experiment, field experiment, comparison experiment, and controlled experiment. This paper has three aims: to clarify experiment terminology in computing; to contribute to disciplinary self-understanding of computing; and, due to computing's centrality in other fields, to promote understanding of experiments in modern science in general.

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Section: Five Views On Experimental Computer Sciencementioning

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Experiments in Computing: A Survey

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Moisseinen

2014

The Scientific World Journal

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“…Using a simple set of assumptions [44], we compared the effectiveness of that model and a previous approach, and both show promise. Ultimately, however, we wish to find a way of rigorously and scientifically evaluating both approaches as well as the approaches of other existing and future forensic tools under the proper environment [43], which we hope will include legal applications.…”

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“…Computer forensics lags behind other forensic disciplines in part due to insufficient dialogue between researchers and practitioners, and the result is that science-a fundamental component of forensics-is largely absent from computer forensics. An ability to communicate about the challenges of each side will ultimately help bring scientific method [43,44] to computer forensics in the way that it exists in other forensic disciplines, such as DNA analysis where the statistics and science regarding the accuracy of the tests is well-understood.…”

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Computer forensics in forensis

Peisert

Bishop

Marzullo

2008

SIGOPS Oper. Syst. Rev.

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Different users apply computer forensic systems, models, and terminology in very different ways. They often make incompatible assumptions and reach different conclusions about the validity and accuracy of the methods they use to log, audit, and present forensic data. This is problematic, because these fields are related, and results from one can be meaningful to the others. We present several forensic systems and discuss situations in which they produce valid and accurate conclusions and also situations in which their accuracy is suspect. We also present forensic models and discuss areas in which they are useful and areas in which they could be augmented. Finally, we present some recommendations about how computer scientists, forensic practitioners, lawyers, and judges could build more complete models of forensics that take into account appropriate legal details and lead to scientifically valid forensic analysis.

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Three Debates about Computing

Tedre

2013

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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I Am a Scientist, Not a Philosopher!

Cited by 5 publications

References 4 publications

Experiments in Computing: A Survey

Experiments in Computing: A Survey

Computer forensics in forensis

Three Debates about Computing

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