Using What You Get

What you see/what you get.

What You See Is What You Get

This paper corrects three widely held misunderstandings about Maxent when used in common sense reasoning: That it is language dependent; That it produces objective facts; That it subsumes, and so is at least as untenable as, the paradox-ridden Principle of Insufficient Reason.

What You Store is What You Get

Recent studies emerged the need for representations of frequent itemsets that allow to estimate supports. Several methods have been proposed that achieve this goal by generating only a subset of all frequent itemsets. In this paper, we propose another approach, that given a minimum support threshold, stores only a small portion of the original database from which the supports of frequent itemse...

Research Relevance-You Get What You Reward

This article argues that IS research is not relevant to the practitioner community due to the tenure-based reward system. It shows that long delays between performing research and publishing in a top journal make our research less timely and useful to practitioners. Teaching and publishing loads give our junior faculty less time to gain practical experience through working with practitioners; a...

You get what you pay for.

As Nursing Standard went to press, chancellor Alistair Darling was putting the finishing touches to his pre-budget report. Speculation was rife that he would announce efficiency savings - or cuts to use more direct language - across the public sector, including the NHS.