Modeling software reliability growth with genetic programming

Proceedings - International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering, ISSRE

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 171-180

  Costa, Eduardo Oliveira ^a   Vergilio, Silvia R ^a   Pozo, Aurora ^a   Souza, Gustave ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARANÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAILURE ANALYSIS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEURAL NETWORKS; RELIABILITY; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

GENETIC PROGRAMMING (GP); REGRESSION PROBLEMS; RELIABILITY MODELS; SOFTWARE FAILURES;

GENETIC ALGORITHMS;

EID: 33750960841     PISSN: 10719458     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISSRE.2005.29     Document Type: Conference Paper

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