Application of metamorphic testing to supervised classifiers

Proceedings - International Conference on Quality Software

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 135-144

  Xie, Xiaoyuan ^a   Ho, Joshua ^b   Murphy, Christian ^c   Kaiser, Gail ^c   Xu, Baowen ^d   Chen, Tsong Yueh ^a  

^a SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^d NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CORE FUNCTIONALITY; MACHINE LEARNING ALGORITHMS; MACHINE LEARNING APPLICATIONS; METAMORPHIC TESTING; ON-MACHINES; PROBLEM DOMAIN; REAL-WORLD; SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING; SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SOFTWARE; SUPERVISED CLASSIFIERS; SUPERVISED MACHINE LEARNING; TEST ORACLES;

BIOINFORMATICS; BIOLOGY; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; LEARNING SYSTEMS;

LEARNING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 77950597207     PISSN: 15506002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/QSIC.2009.26     Document Type: Conference Paper

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