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- review-articleDecember 2023
Application of knowledge graph in software engineering field: A systematic literature review
Information and Software Technology (INST), Volume 164, Issue Chttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.infsof.2023.107327Abstract Context:Knowledge graphs describe knowledge resources and their carriers through visualization. Moreover, they mine, analyze, construct, draw, and display knowledge and their interrelationships to reveal the dynamic development law of the ...
- research-articleJuly 2022
Quantum computing challenges in the software industry. A fuzzy AHP-based approach
Information and Software Technology (INST), Volume 147, Issue Chttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.infsof.2022.106896Abstract ContextThe current technology revolution has posed unexpected challenges for the software industry. In recent years, the field of quantum computing (QC) technologies has continued to grow in influence and maturity, and it is now poised to ...
- research-articleJanuary 2020
The missing link – A semantic web based approach for integrating screencasts with security advisories
Information and Software Technology (INST), Volume 117, Issue Chttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.infsof.2019.106197Abstract ContextCollaborative tools and repositories have been introduced to facilitate open source software development, allowing projects, developers, and users to share their knowledge and expertise through formal and informal ...
- review-articleJuly 2019
State of the art in hybrid strategies for context reasoning: A systematic literature review
Information and Software Technology (INST), Volume 111, Issue CPages 122–130https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infsof.2019.01.010Abstract ContextSeveral strategies have been used to implement context reasoning, and a strategy that can be applied satisfactorily in different smart systems applications has not yet been found. Because of this, hybrid proposals ...
- research-articleNovember 2016
Evaluation and analysis of incorporating Fuzzy Expert System approach into test suite reduction
Information and Software Technology (INST), Volume 79, Issue CPages 79–105https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infsof.2016.07.005ContextSoftware has become increasingly important in our modern society. However, when new features are developed due to user requests, such requests could make the sizes of test-case pools bigger. Many techniques are proposed to solve this problem, ...
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- research-articleAugust 2016
FAME
Information and Software Technology (INST), Volume 76, Issue CPages 118–134https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infsof.2016.04.014Requirements for modeling fuzzy self-adaptive software (F-SAS) systems are thoroughly identified and discussed.FAME framework is proposed; covering requirement analysis, structure design and behavior description of F-SAS.A subject-based empirical ...
- research-articleJuly 2016
Run-time requirements verification for reconfigurable systems
Information and Software Technology (INST), Volume 75, Issue CPages 105–121https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infsof.2016.04.005Context: Modern software systems often are distributed, run on virtualized platforms, implement complex tasks and operate on dynamically changing and unpredictable environments. Such systems need to be dynamically reconfigured or evolve in order to ...
- research-articleJanuary 2016
Risk-based test case prioritization using a fuzzy expert system
Information and Software Technology (INST), Volume 69, Issue CPages 1–15https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infsof.2015.08.008Context: The use of system requirements and their risks enables software testers to identify more important test cases that can reveal the faults associated with system components.Objective: The goal of this research is to make the requirements risk ...
- research-articleJuly 2015
A fuzzy logic based approach for phase-wise software defects prediction using software metrics
Information and Software Technology (INST), Volume 63, Issue CPages 44–57https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infsof.2015.03.001Display Omitted We present a fuzzy logic based approach for phase-wise software defects prediction.Top-most reliability relevant software metrics of SDLC are considered.The proposed model is validated on 20 real software projects.The sensitivity ...
- articleNovember 2013
Modeling optimal release policy under fuzzy paradigm in imperfect debugging environment
Information and Software Technology (INST), Volume 55, Issue 11Pages 1974–1980https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infsof.2013.06.001Context: In this study, a software optimal release time with cost-reliability criteria has been discussed in an imperfect debugging environment. Objective: The motive of this study is to model uncertainty involved in estimated parameters of the software ...
- articleJanuary 2010
Software development effort prediction: A study on the factors impacting the accuracy of fuzzy logic systems
Information and Software Technology (INST), Volume 52, Issue 1Pages 92–109https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infsof.2009.08.001Reliable effort prediction remains an ongoing challenge to software engineers. Traditional approaches to effort prediction such as the use of models derived from historical data, or the use of expert opinion are plagued with issues pertaining to their ...
- articleMarch 2009
Handling imprecision and uncertainty in software development effort prediction: A type-2 fuzzy logic based framework
Information and Software Technology (INST), Volume 51, Issue 3Pages 640–654https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infsof.2008.09.004Traditional approaches for software projects effort prediction such as the use of mathematical formulae derived from historical data, or the use of experts judgments are plagued with issues pertaining to effectiveness and robustness in their results. ...
- articleJanuary 2009
Evaluating the validity of data instances against ontology evolution over the Semantic Web
Information and Software Technology (INST), Volume 51, Issue 1Pages 83–97https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infsof.2008.01.004It is natural for ontologies to evolve over time. These changes could be at structural and semantic levels. Due to changes to an ontology, its data instances may become invalid, and as a result, may become non-interpretable. In this paper, we address ...
- articleOctober 2008
Ontological modelling of content management and provision
Information and Software Technology (INST), Volume 50, Issue 11Pages 1155–1164https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infsof.2008.03.008Information provision to address the changing requirements can be best supported by content management. The current information technology enables information to be stored and provided from various distributed sources. To identify and retrieve relevant ...
- articleAugust 2008
An approach to fuzzy granule-based hierarchical polynomial networks for empirical data modeling in software engineering
Information and Software Technology (INST), Volume 50, Issue 9-10Pages 912–923https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infsof.2007.09.002Experimental software data capturing the essence of software projects (expressed e.g., in terms of their complexity and development time) have been a subject of intensive modeling. In this study, we introduce a new category of fuzzy granule-based ...
- articleJune 2008
MOBMAS: A methodology for ontology-based multi-agent systems development
Information and Software Technology (INST), Volume 50, Issue 7-8Pages 697–722https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infsof.2007.07.005Ontologies offer significant benefits to multi-agent systems: interoperability, reusability, support for multi-agent system (MAS) development activities (such as system analysis and agent knowledge modeling) and support for MAS operation (such as agent ...
- articleJune 2008
A new calibration for Function Point complexity weights
Information and Software Technology (INST), Volume 50, Issue 7-8Pages 670–683https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infsof.2007.07.004Function Point (FP) is a useful software metric that was first proposed 25 years ago, since then, it has steadily evolved into a functional size metric consolidated in the well-accepted Standardized International Function Point Users Group (IFPUG) ...
- articleMarch 2008
On the interplay between inconsistency and incompleteness in multi-perspective requirements specifications
- Ana Belén Barragáns Martínez,
- José J. Pazos Arias,
- Ana Fernández Vilas,
- Jorge García Duque,
- Martín López Nores,
- Rebeca P. Díaz Redondo,
- Yolanda Blanco Fernández
Information and Software Technology (INST), Volume 50, Issue 4Pages 296–321https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infsof.2007.02.001A major challenge for dealing with multi-perspective specifications, and more concretely, with merging of several descriptions or views is toleration of incompleteness and inconsistency: views may be inconclusive, and may have conflicts over the ...
- articleJanuary 2008
Engineering contextual knowledge for autonomic pervasive services
Information and Software Technology (INST), Volume 50, Issue 1-2Pages 36–50https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infsof.2007.10.009In this paper, we identify the key software engineering challenges introduced by the need of accessing and exploiting huge amount of heterogeneous contextual information. Following, we survey the relevant proposals in the area of context-aware pervasive ...
- articleJuly 2007
Emotional agents: A modeling and an application
Information and Software Technology (INST), Volume 49, Issue 7Pages 695–716https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infsof.2006.08.002This paper proposes modeling of artificial emotions through agents based on symbolic approach. The symbolic approach utilizes symbolic emotional rule-based systems (rule base that generated emotions) with continuous interactions with environment and an ...