A Pattern Recognition Approach for Software Engineering Data Analysis

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 1992, Pages 931-942

  Briand, Lionel C ^a   Basili, Victor R ^a   Thomas, William M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Classification; data analysis; empirical modeling; machine learning; pattern recognition; quality evaluation; risk assessment; software development cost prediction; stochastic modeling

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DATA ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENTS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EMPIRICAL MODELING; MACHINE LEARNING; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT;

PATTERN RECOGNITION;

EID: 0026944407     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/32.177363     Document Type: Article

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