Software quality analysis of unlabeled program modules with semisupervised clustering

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part A:Systems and Humans

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 201-211

  Seliya, Naeem ^a   Khoshgoftaar, Taghi M ^b  

^a Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

^b Florida Atlantic Univ   (United States)

Author keywords

Constraint based clustering; Semisupervised learning; Software measurements; Software quality; Unlabeled data

Indexed keywords

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; ESTIMATION; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; QUALITY ASSURANCE;

CONSTRAINT-BASED CLUSTERING; SEMISUPERVISED CLUSTERING SCHEME; SEMISUPERVISED LEARNING; SOFTWARE MEASUREMENTS; SOFTWARE QUALITY; SOFTWARE QUALITY ESTIMATION MODEL; UNLABELED DATA;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 33947597252     PISSN: 10834427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCA.2006.889473     Document Type: Article

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