Prediction of software faults using fuzzy nonlinear regression modeling

Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on High Assurance Systems Engineering

Volumn 2000-January, Issue , 2000, Pages 281-290

  Xu, Zhiwei ^a   Khoshgoftaar, T M ^a,c   Allen, E B ^b  

^a FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Florida Atlantic Univ   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer industry; Context modeling; Fuzzy neural networks; Fuzzy sets; Linear regression; Neural networks; Predictive models; Software metrics; Software quality; Software testing

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; COST EFFECTIVENESS; FORECASTING; FUZZY LOGIC; FUZZY NEURAL NETWORKS; FUZZY SETS; LINEAR REGRESSION; NEURAL NETWORKS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING;

COMPUTER INDUSTRY; CONTEXT MODELING; PREDICTIVE MODELS; SOFTWARE METRICS; SOFTWARE QUALITY;

SOFTWARE TESTING;

EID: 0007562233     PISSN: 15302059     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HASE.2000.895473     Document Type: Conference Paper

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