1998 Publications

For further information, contact Prof. Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL 33432, phone: (561)297-3994, fax: (561)297-2800, email: taghi@cse.fau.edu.

[1]Matthew P. Evett, Taghi M. Khoshgoftar, Pei-Der Chien, and Edward B. Allen. GP-based software quality prediction. In John R. Koza, Wolfgang Banzhaf, Kumar Chellapilla, Kalyanmoym Deb, Marco Dorigo, David B. Fogel, Max H. Garzon, David E. Goldberg, Hitoshi Iba, and Rick Riolo, editors, Genetic Programming 1998: Proceedings of the Third Annual Conference, pages 60--65, Madison, WI USA, July 1998. AAAI, Morgan Kaufmann.

[2]Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar and Edward B. Allen. Can a software quality model hit a moving target? In Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Maintenance, pages 68--70, Bethesda, MD USA, November 1998. IEEE Computer Society. Position paper.

[3]Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar and Edward B. Allen. Classification of fault-prone software modules: Prior probabilities, costs, and model evaluation. Empirical Software Engineering: An International Journal, 3(3):275--298, September 1998.

[4]Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar and Edward B. Allen. An information theoretic approach to predicting software faults. International Journal of Reliability, Quality and Safety Engineering, 5(3):227--248, September 1998.

[5]Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar and Edward B. Allen. Neural networks for software quality prediction. In Witold Pedrycz and James F. Peters, editors, Computational Intelligence in Software Engineering, volume 16 of Advances in Fuzzy Systems --- Applications and Theory, pages 33--63. World Scientific, Singapore, 1998.

[6]Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar and Edward B. Allen. Predicting software modules that will need rework. In Proceedings: Third Annual Workshop on Empirical Studies of Software Maintenance, pages 49--50, Bethesda, Maryland USA, November 1998. IEEE Computer Society. Position paper. Available at www.cs.umd.edu/~sharip/wess.

[7]Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar and Edward B. Allen. Predicting the order of fault-prone modules in legacy software. In Proceedings of the Ninth International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering, pages 344--353, Paderborn, Germany, November 1998. IEEE Computer Society.

[8]Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar and Edward B. Allen. Tutorial: Building a corporate metrics program for high quality software. In 1998 IEEE Workshop on Application-Specific Software Engineering and Technology, Richardson, TX USA, March 1998. IEEE Computer Society.

[9]Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar, Edward B. Allen, Robert Halstead, Gary P. Trio, and Ronald Flass. Process measures for predicting software quality. Computer, 31(4):66--72, April 1998.

[10]Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar, Edward B. Allen, Wendell D. Jones, and John P. Hudepohl. Return on investment of software quality models. In Proceedings 1998 IEEE Workshop on Application-Specific Software Engineering and Technology, pages 145--150, Richardson, TX USA, March 1998. IEEE Computer Society.

[11]Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar, Edward B. Allen, Archana Naik, Wendell D. Jones, and John P. Hudepohl. Modeling software quality with classification trees. In Hoang Pham and Ming-Wei Lu, editors, Proceedings of the Fourth ISSAT International Conference on Reliability and Quality in Design, pages 178--182, Seattle WA, August 1998. International Society of Science and Applied Technologies.

[12]Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar, Edward B. Allen, Archana Naik, Wendell D. Jones, and John P. Hudepohl. Using classification trees for software quality models: Lessons learned. In Proceedings of the Third IEEE International High-Assurance Systems Engineering Symposium, pages 82--89, Bethesda, MD USA, November 1998. IEEE Computer Society.

[13]Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar, Matthew P. Evett, Edward B. Allen, and Pei-Der Chien. An application of genetic programming to software quality prediction. In Witold Pedrycz and James F. Peters, editors, Computational Intelligence in Software Engineering, volume 16 of Advances in Fuzzy Systems --- Applications and Theory, pages 176--195 . World Scientific, Singapore, 1998.

[14]Archana Naik. Prediction of software quality using classification tree modeling. Master's thesis, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL USA, December 1998. Advised by Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar.

[15]Donald F. Schenker and Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar. The application of fuzzy-enhanced case-based reasoning for identifying fault-prone modules. In Proceedings of the Third IEEE International High-Assurance Systems Engineering Symposium, pages 90--97, Bethesda, MD USA, November 1998. IEEE Computer Society.