Maximum profit mining and its application in software development

Proceedings of the ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 929-934

  Ling, Charles X ^a   Sheng, Victor S ^a   Bruckhaus, Tilmann ^b   Madhavji, Nazim H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b Numetrics Management Systems   (United States)

Author keywords

Cost sensitive learning; Data mining; Escalation prediction

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER DEBUGGING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; DATA MINING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

COST SENSITIVE LEARNING; ESCALATION PREDICTION (EP); SOFTWARE VENDORS;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 33749562833     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1150402.1150530     Document Type: Conference Paper

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