Prolusion Paul Vitányi's 2003 Kolmogorov complexity lecture included a computer exercise in which a polynomial relation had to be learnt from samples. 1 The following data were provided: a sequence of pairs of numbers (h 1 , d 1), supposedly noisy measurements of a classical urn, h i being the height from the floor and d i being the diameter of the urn at the height h i. The goal was to infer a...

An important goal of most empirical software engineering research is the transfer of research results to industrial applications. Two important obstacles for this transfer are the lack of control of variables of case studies, i.e., the lack of explanatory power, and the lack of realism of controlled experiments. While it may be difficult to increase the explanatory power of case studies, there ...

Alaska Simulator Toolset is an interactive software suite developed at the University of Innsbruck which allows to explore different approaches to process flexibility by using a familiar metaphor, i.e., travel planning and execution. In particular, Alaska Simulator Toolset is used for studying research questions in the context of business process management and other related fields. For this, A...

With the increasing complexity of simulation studies, and thus experiments, there is a high demand for better support them to be conducted. Recently, model-driven approaches have been explored facilitating specification, execution, reproducibility experiments. However, more general approach that suited variety modeling areas, experiment types, tools, which also allows further automation, still ...

In this Methods Showcase Article, we outline a workflow for running behavioral experiments online, with focus on that rely presentation of complex stimuli and measurement reaction times, which includes many psycholinguistic experiments. The describe here relies three tools: OpenSesame/OSWeb (open source) provides user-friendly graphical interface developing experiments; JATOS is server software...

BACKGROUND Although it may help to widen our knowledge, conducting experiments with use of animals, is very controversial, especially since the most recent technology enables us to significantly avoid their use. Currently, the European directives require researchers to reduce the using of animals in scientific experiments, but some studies suggest awareness of the problem is still insufficient....