A hierarchical mixture model for software reliability prediction

Applied Mathematics and Computation

Volumn 185, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 1120-1130

  Li, Shaoming ^a,b   Yin, Qian ^a,b   Guo, Ping ^a,b   Lyu, Michael R ^c  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF SOFTWARE   (China)

^c CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

EM algorithm; HME; Prediction; Software reliability model

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; EXPERT SYSTEMS; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; RELIABILITY THEORY;

EXPECTATION MAXIMIZING (EM) ALGORITHM; HIERARCHICAL EXPERTS; HIERARCHICAL MIXTURE OF SOFTWARE RELIABILITY MODELS (HMSRM); SOFTWARE RELIABILITY;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

EID: 33847273009     PISSN: 00963003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amc.2006.07.028     Document Type: Article

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