A multiobjective module-order model for software quality enhancement

IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 593-608

  Khoshgoftaar, Taghi M ^a   Liu, Yi ^b   Seliya, Naeem ^a  

^a Florida Atlantic Univ   (United States)

^b GEORGIA COLLEGE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Genetic programming (GP); Module order model (MOM); Multiobjective optimization (MOO); Software metrics; Software quality estimation

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; VECTORS;

GENETIC PROGRAMMING (GP); MODULE ORDER MODEL (MOM); MULTIOBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION (MOO); SOFTWARE METRICS; SOFTWARE QUALITY ESTIMATION;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 11844289599     PISSN: 1089778X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TEVC.2004.837108     Document Type: Article

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