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• J. Ratzinger, T. Sigmund, P. Vorburger, and H. Gall
  Mining software evolution to predict refactoring. In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM), to appear, Madrid, Spain, September 2007.

• P. Vorburger, A. Bernstein
  Entropy-based Concept Shift Detection, Proceedings of The IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM) . December 18-22, 2006, Hong Kong. (Acceptance ratio 20% of 800). PDF

• P. Vorburger, A. Bernstein
  Entropy-based Detection of Real and Virtual Concept Shifts, Working Paper - University of Zurich, Department of Informatics, 2006. PDF

• A. Bernstein, P. Vorburger
  A Scenario-Based Approach for Direct Interruptablity Prediction on Wearable Devices, Journal of Pervasive Computing and Communications, 2006. (in proceedings)

• P. Vorburger, A. Bernstein
  Towards an Artificial Receptionist: Anticipating a Persons Phone Behavior, University of Zurich, Department of Informatics, (techreport) 2005. PDF

• P. Vorburger, A. Bernstein, A. Zurfluh
  Interruptability Prediction Using Motion Detection, First International Workshop on Managing Context Information in Mobile and Pervasive Environments MCMP-05, May 2005. PDF

• A. Bernstein, P. Vorburger, P. Egger
  Direct Interruptablity Prediction and Scenario-based Evaluation of Wearable Devices: Towards Reliable Interruptability Predictions, First International Workshop on Managing Context Information in Mobile and Pervasive Environments MCMP-05, May 2005. PDF

• P. Vorburger, J. Rychen, T. Vancura, T. Ihn, K. Ensslin, Solid State Physics Laboratory, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, and D. Müller, Nanosurf AG, Switzerland. 1999.
  Realisation of a phase-locked loop for a dynamic mode scanning force microscope with a tuning fork sensor.
  Nanosurf Application note (1999)
  PDF, HTML
  (one result of the master theses mentioned below)

• M.A. Chernikov, S. Paschen, E. Felder, P. Vorburger, B. Ruzicka, L. Degiorgi, H.R. Ott, I.R. Fisher, and P.C. Canfield. 2000.
  Low-Temperature Transport, Thermal, and Optical Properties of Single-Grain Quasicrystals of ,Icosahedral Phases in the Y-Mg-Zn and Tb-Mg-Zn Alloy Systems
  Phys. Rev. B: Condens. Matter Mater. Phys. 62(1), 262-272 (2000).
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• P. Vorburger. (1999).
  Construction of a Scanning Force Microscope and Force-Distance Measurements on Gold and Graphite Surfaces
  Diploma Thesis at the Laboratory of Solid State Physics, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, Switzerland, Summer Term 1999.
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