1999 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]Edward B. Allen and Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar. Assessing software dependability with the help of software quality models: A report on work in progress. In Conference Proceedings: International Software Assurance Certification Conference, page Paper G1., Chantilly, Virginia USA, March 1999. Information Technology Association of America. Proceedings available from Reliable Software Technologies, Sterling, VA USA.

[2]Edward B. Allen and Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar. Measurement of software design cohesion. In Hoang Pham and Ming-Wei Lu, editors, Proceedings: Fifth ISSAT International Conference on Reliability and Quality in Design, pages 158--163, Las Vegas, Nevada USA, August 1999. International Society of Science and Applied Technologies. Invited paper.

[3]Edward B. Allen and Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar. Measuring coupling and cohesion: An information-theory approach. In Proceedings of the Sixth International Software Metrics Symposium, pages 119--127, Boca Raton, Florida USA, November 1999. IEEE Computer Society.

[4]Jianyu Deng. Classification of software quality using tree modeling with the S-Plus algorithm. Master's thesis, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, December 1999. Advised by Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar.

[5]Matthew P. Evett, Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar, Pei-Der Chien, and Edward B. Allen. Modelling software quality with GP. In John Koza et al., editors, Proceedings: Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, Orlando, Florida USA, July 1999. Morgan Kaufman.

[6]Matthew P. Evett, Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar, Pei-Der Chien, and Edward B. Allen. Using genetic programming to determine software quality. In Amruth N. Kumar and Ingrid Russell, editors, Proceedings of the Twelfth International FLAIRS Conference, pages 113--117, Menlo Park, California USA, March 1999. American Association for Artificial Intelligence, AAAI Press.

[7]K. Ganesan, Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar, and Edward B. Allen. Case-based software quality prediction. International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, 9(6), 1999. In press.

[8]Wendell D. Jones, John P. Hudepohl, Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar, and Edward B. Allen. Application of a usage profile in software quality models. In Proceedings of the Third European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering, pages 148--157, Amsterdam, Netherlands, March 1999. IEEE Computer Society.

[9]Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar and Edward B. Allen. A comparative study of ordering and classification of fault-prone software modules. Empirical Software Engineering: An International Journal, 4:159--186, 1999.

[10]Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar and Edward B. Allen. Logistic regression modeling of software quality. International Journal of Reliability, Quality and Safety Engineering, 6(4):303--317, December 1999.

[11]Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar and Edward B. Allen. Modeling software quality with classification trees. In Hoang Pham, editor, Recent Advances in Reliability and Quality Engineering. World Scientific, Singapore, 1999. In press.

[12]Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar and Edward B. Allen. Predicting fault-prone software modules in embedded systems with classification trees. In Proceedings: Fourth IEEE International Symposium on High-Assurance Systems Engineering, pages 105--112, Washington, DC USA, November 1999. IEEE Computer Society.

[13]Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar, Edward B. Allen, Wendell D. Jones, and John P. Hudepohl. Classification tree models of software quality over multiple releases. In Proceedings: The Tenth International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering, pages 116--125, Boca Raton, Florida USA, November 1999. IEEE Computer Society.

[14]Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar, Edward B. Allen, Wendell D. Jones, and John P. Hudepohl. Data mining for predictiors of software quality. International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, 9(5):547--563, 1999.

[15]Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar, Edward B. Allen, Wendell D. Jones, and John P. Hudepohl. Which software modules have faults that will be discovered by customers? Journal of Software Maintenance: Research and Practice, 11(1):1--18, January 1999.

[16]Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar, Edward B. Allen, Archana Naik, Wendell D. Jones, and John P. Hudepohl. Using classification trees for software quality models: Lessons learned. International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, 9(2):217--231, 1999.

[17]Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar, Edward B. Allen, Wai Hong Tang, Christoph C. Michael, and Jeffrey M. Voas. Identifying modules which do not propagate errors. In Proceedings: 1999 IEEE Symposium on Application-Specific Systems and Software Engineering and Technology, pages 185--193, Richardson, Texas USA, March 1999. IEEE Computer Society.

[18]Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar, Edward B. Allen, Xiaojing Yuan, Wendell D. Jones, and John P. Hudepohl. Preparing measurements of legacy software for predicting operational faults. In Proceedings: International Conference on Software Maintenance, pages 359--368, Oxford, England, August 1999. IEEE Computer Society.

[19]Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar, Edward B. Allen, Xiaojing Yuan, Wendell D. Jones, and John P. Hudepohl. Assessing uncertain predictions of software quality. In Proceedings of the Sixth International Software Metrics Symposium, pages 159--168, Boca Raton, Florida USA, November 1999. IEEE Computer Society.

[20]Ruqun Shan. Modeling software quality with classification trees using principal components analysis. Master's thesis, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, December 1999. Advised by Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar.

[21]Robert M. Szabo and Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar. The detection of high risk software modules in an object-oriented system. In Hoang Pham and Ming-Wei Lu, editors, Proceedings: Fifth ISSAT International Conference on Reliability and Quality in Design, pages 142--147, Las Vegas, Nevada USA, August 1999. International Society of Science and Applied Technologies. Invited paper.

[22]Xiaojing Yuan. Modeling software quality with TREEDISC. Master's thesis, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, December 1999. Advised by Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar.