Calculation and optimization of thresholds for sets of software metrics

Empirical Software Engineering

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 812-841

  Herbold, Steffen ^a   Grabowski, Jens ^a   Waack, Stephan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Machine learning; PAC; Software metrics; Thresholds

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACTION LEVEL; ALGORITHMIC METHODS; C FUNCTIONS; CLASSIFICATION MODELS; DATA MINING TECHNIQUES; DATA-DRIVEN; EFFICIENCY OPTIMIZATION; JAVA CLASS; OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARES; PAC; SOFTWARE METRICS; THRESHOLDS;

DATA MINING; LEARNING SYSTEMS;

OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 80052967284     PISSN: 13823256     EISSN: 15737616     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10664-011-9162-z     Document Type: Article

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