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48 results for software evolution

Improving software quality through effective organizational learning.

problem Lack of reliable quantification methods for software evolution.
method Leveraging application lifecycle management data to identify and address managerial practices.
result Effective learning from past processes improves software quality indirectly.

Although software analytics has experienced rapid growth as a research area, it has not yet reached its full potential for wide industrial adoption. Most of the existing work in software analytics still relies heavily on costly manual feature engineering processes, and they mainly address the traditional classification…

2016-07-30abs ↗pdf ↗

Sphere eversions have been described so far by either pictures with minimal topological complexity, numerical evolution or complex equations. We write down relatively simple explicit formulas for the whole eversion, both analytic and topologically simpler, including also Boy surface (real projective plane), using a fam…

2017-11-28abs ↗pdf ↗

We use a control framework to analyze the digital vendor's profit maximization problem. The vendor captures market share by focusing costly effort on post-launch product maintenance, which influences user perception of the product and drives a revenue stream associated with product use. Our theoretical results show nec…

2014-12-30abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper reviews forecast combinations over 50 years, highlighting their evolution and utility.

problem Improving forecast accuracy through combining multiple forecasts.
method Evolution of forecast combination methods, from simple to sophisticated.
result Forecast combinations have become a mainstream approach in forecasting.

Survey of Graph Neural Networks for efficient computation.

problem Efficient processing of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) is challenging.
method Review of GNN algorithms, software and hardware acceleration analysis.
result Distilled hardware-software, graph-aware, and communication-centric vision for GNN accelerators.

Bayesian optimization has emerged as a strong candidate tool for global optimization of functions with expensive evaluation costs. However, due to the dynamic nature of research in Bayesian approaches, and the evolution of computing technology, using Bayesian optimization in a parallel computing environment remains a c…

2018-07-01abs ↗pdf ↗

Research proposes an ensemble learning model for efficient software defect prediction.

problem Efficient and cost-effective software testing to minimize project resources.
method Machine learning analysis on different datasets using KNN, Decision Tree, SVM, and Naïve Bayes.
result Ensemble learning model outperforms other techniques in accuracy, precision, recall, and F1-score.

The problem of automatic software generation is known as Machine Programming. In this work, we propose a framework based on genetic algorithms to solve this problem. Although genetic algorithms have been used successfully for many problems, one criticism is that hand-crafting its fitness function, the test that aims to…

2019-08-22abs ↗pdf ↗

Improved software flaw detection using NAS on multimodal DL models.

problem Software flaw detection in multimodal deep learning models.
method Adapted NAS framework for multimodal learning, combined with multimodal deep learning models.
result Improved performance on the Juliet Test Suite.

Method predicts hardware resource usage by control software with guaranteed linear convergence.

problem Predicting time-varying hardware resource availability in control software.
method Path structured multimarginal Schrödinger bridge (MSBP) for learning stochastic resource usage.
result Guaranteed linear convergence to accurate prediction of hardware resource utilization.

Software development effort estimation is considered a fundamental task for software development life cycle as well as for managing project cost, time and quality. Therefore, accurate estimation is a substantial factor in projects success and reducing the risks. In recent years, software effort estimation has received …

2019-01-08abs ↗pdf ↗

Existing language models such as n-grams for software code often fail to capture a long context where dependent code elements scatter far apart. In this paper, we propose a novel approach to build a language model for software code to address this particular issue. Our language model, partly inspired by human memory, i…

2016-08-09abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper tackles co-design of neural hardware and software to improve efficiency.

problem Designing efficient deep learning systems that consider both hardware and software optimizations together.
method Developed a constrained Bayesian optimization framework to automatically identify profitable design points in the joint hardware/software design space.
result Improved energy-delay product by 18% (ResNet) and 40% (DQN) over hand-tuned systems.

The public package registry npm is one of the biggest software registry. With its 216 911 software packages, it forms a big network of software dependencies. In this paper we evaluate various methods for finding similar packages in the npm network, using only the structure of the graph. Namely, we want to find a way of…

2016-02-11abs ↗pdf ↗

FlexServe simplifies deployment of PyTorch models as REST endpoints.

problem Lack of control over model evolution and strict security requirements in operational environments.
method Developed FlexServe, a library to deploy multi-model ensembles with flexible batching.
result Rapid deployment of PyTorch models without intermediate transformations.

The purpose of this study is to introduce new design-criteria for next-generation hyperparameter optimization software. The criteria we propose include (1) define-by-run API that allows users to construct the parameter search space dynamically, (2) efficient implementation of both searching and pruning strategies, and …

2019-07-25abs ↗pdf ↗

Existing malware detectors on safety-critical devices have difficulties in runtime detection due to the performance overhead. In this paper, we introduce PROPEDEUTICA, a framework for efficient and effective real-time malware detection, leveraging the best of conventional machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) te…

2017-12-04abs ↗pdf ↗

Software estimates inequality in random systems with changing communities.

problem Measuring inequality in systems with dynamic interactions and random attributes.
method Piecewise homogeneous Markov chain for changing points, copula function for multivariate distribution, Monte Carlo algorithm for entropy estimation.
result Estimates Random Theil's Entropy to measure inequality in random systems.

A machine learning environment for detecting autonomous vehicle corner cases.

problem Testing autonomous driving software in the real world is difficult.
method Connecting CARLA simulation software to TensorFlow and custom AI client software.
result The system can identify situations where AI software fails to understand the scenario.

PyTorch Geometric Signed Directed fills the gap for GNNs on signed and directed graphs.

problem Lack of unified software packages for GNNs on signed and directed networks.
method Developed a software package with GNN models, synthetic and real-world data, and evaluation metrics.
result Demonstrates the effectiveness of the implemented methods through experiments.

While developing their software, professional object-oriented (OO) software developers keep in their minds an image of the subtyping relation between types in their software. The goal of this paper is to present an observation about the graph of the subtyping relation in Java, namely the observation that, after the add…

2014-11-19abs ↗pdf ↗

This thesis advances algorithms and software for QMC, GP, and sciML.

problem Efficient high-dimensional integration, interpolation, and PDE modeling.
method Developed new algorithms and software for QMC, GP, and sciML.
result Efficient and accurate methods for high-dimensional problems.

We model GitHub interactions as a temporal knowledge graph for software engineering questions.

problem Insufficient performance of existing temporal models on extrapolated queries and time prediction.
method Introduced an extension to current temporal models using relative temporal information.
result Improved performance on extrapolated queries and time prediction.

Graph-based ML improves defect prediction in software development.

problem Challenges in predicting defect-prone changes in complex software development.
method Building contribution graphs from developers and source files, using graph-based ML for defect prediction.
result Graph-based ML leads to significantly better defect prediction (F1 score up to 77.55%, MCC up to 53.16%).

A new method for verifying deep learning architectures on FPGAs is proposed.

problem Design-time verification of deep learning architectures on FPGAs.
method 2-Level 3-Way (2L-3W) hardware-software co-verification methodology.
result Layer-by-layer similarity scores of 99% accuracy for successful mappings.

Software package assesses spherical data distributions and clusters.

problem Assessing and clustering spherical data distributions.
method Innovative goodness-of-fit tests and clustering algorithms using kernel-based quadratic distances.
result Efficient and mathematically sound goodness-of-fit tests for spherical data.

Software simplifies triangulations of 4-manifolds, revealing exotic structures.

problem Understanding smooth 4-manifolds from discrete and algorithmic perspectives.
method New software tools, including an algorithm for triangulations from Kirby diagrams and a heuristic for simplification.
result Presented new triangulations of exotic pairs, corks, and plugs, including the smallest known K3 surface.