Mining extremely small data sets with application to software reuse

Software - Practice and Experience

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 423-440

  Jiang, Yuan ^a   Li, Ming ^a   Zhou, Zhi Hua ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Data mining; Ensemble learning; Extremely small data set; Machine learning; Random forest; Software reuse; Twice learning

Indexed keywords

ENSEMBLE LEARNING; EXTREMELY SMALL DATA SET; MACHINE LEARNING; RANDOM FOREST; SOFTWARE REUSE; TWICE LEARNING;

DATA MINING; DECISION TREES; EDUCATION; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; ROBOT LEARNING; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE REUSABILITY;

EID: 65349114774     PISSN: 00380644     EISSN: 1097024X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/spe.905     Document Type: Article

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