A fuzzy classifier approach to estimating software quality

Information Sciences

Volumn 241, Issue , 2013, Pages 1-11

  Pizzi, Nick J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Computational intelligence; Fuzzy logic; Pattern classification; Software engineering; Software metric

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM DEVELOPMENT; BIOMEDICAL DATA ANALYSIS; CLASSIFICATION RESULTS; ESTIMATING SOFTWARE; FUZZY CLASSIFICATION; INDIVIDUAL CLASSIFIERS; QUALITATIVE ATTRIBUTES; SOFTWARE METRICES;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; ESTIMATION; FUZZY LOGIC; FUZZY SYSTEMS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

FACE RECOGNITION;

EID: 84878223411     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2013.04.027     Document Type: Article

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