Ant colony optimization for the next release problem a comparative study

Proceedings - 2nd International Symposium on Search Based Software Engineering, SSBSE 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 67-76

  Del Sagrado, José ^a   Del Águila, Isabel María ^a   Orellana, Francisco Javier ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALMERÍA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Ant colony optimization; Genetic algorithm; Next release problem; Requirement selection; Simulated annealing

Indexed keywords

ANT COLONY SYSTEMS; ANT-COLONY OPTIMIZATION; COMPARATIVE STUDIES; COMPLEX TASK; CUSTOMERS' SATISFACTION; INDIVIDUAL CUSTOMERS; META-HEURISTIC SEARCH; NEXT RELEASE PROBLEM; OPTIMISATIONS; REQUIREMENT SELECTION; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; SOFTWARE ENHANCEMENTS; SOFTWARE PRODUCTS; SUBOPTIMAL SOLUTION;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; HEURISTIC ALGORITHMS; SALES; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

SIMULATED ANNEALING;

EID: 79952058787     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SSBSE.2010.18     Document Type: Conference Paper

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