An adaptive neural network with dynamic structure for software defect prediction

20th International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, SEKE 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 79-84

  Xu, Zhiwei ^a   Seliya, Naeem ^a   Wu, Weibiao ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN DEARBORN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE NEURAL NETWORKS; BACK PROPAGATION NEURAL NETWORKS; COMPLEX RELATIONSHIPS; DEFECT PREDICTION MODELS; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSIONS; RESILIENT PROPAGATION; SOFTWARE DEFECT PREDICTION; SOFTWARE FAULT PREDICTION;

DEFECTS; FORECASTING; KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING; LINEAR REGRESSION; NEURAL NETWORKS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SOFTWARE RELIABILITY;

SOFTWARE TESTING;

EID: 65249120901     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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