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Software defect prediction plays a crucial role in estimating the most defect-prone components of software, and a large number of studies have pursued improving prediction accuracy within a project or across projects. However, the rules for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Peng He , Bing Li , Xiao Liu , Jun Chen , Yutao Ma

During software development, developers often make numerous modifications to the software to address existing issues or implement new features. However, certain changes may inadvertently have a detrimental impact on the overall system…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-16 Lizhi Liao , Simon Eismann , Heng Li , Cor-Paul Bezemer , Diego Elias Costa , Andre van Hoorn , Weiyi Shang

In software engineering, deep learning models are increasingly deployed for critical tasks such as bug detection and code review. However, overfitting remains a challenge that affects the quality, reliability, and trustworthiness of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Hao Li , Gopi Krishnan Rajbahadur , Dayi Lin , Cor-Paul Bezemer , Zhen Ming , Jiang

Estimating how often an ML model will fail at deployment scale is central to pre-deployment safety assessment, but a feasible evaluation set is rarely large enough to observe the failures that matter. Jones et al. (2025) address this by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Will Schwarzer , Scott Niekum

Several software defect prediction techniques have been developed over the past decades. These techniques predict defects at the granularity of typical software assets, such as components and files. In this paper, we investigate…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Mukelabai Mukelabai , Stefan Strüder , Daniel Strüber , Thorsten Berger

Prescriptive process monitoring approaches leverage historical data to prescribe runtime interventions that will likely prevent negative case outcomes or improve a process's performance. A centerpiece of a prescriptive process monitoring…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Mahmoud Shoush , Marlon Dumas

Predictive maintenance (PdM) is a concept, which is implemented to effectively manage maintenance plans of the assets by predicting their failures with data driven techniques. In these scenarios, data is collected over a certain period of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-20 Archit P. Kane , Ashutosh S. Kore , Advait N. Khandale , Sarish S. Nigade , Pranjali P. Joshi

Automated detection of software vulnerabilities is a fundamental problem in software security. Existing program analysis techniques either suffer from high false positives or false negatives. Recent progress in Deep Learning (DL) has…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-09-16 Saikat Chakraborty , Rahul Krishna , Yangruibo Ding , Baishakhi Ray

A well-known approach for identifying defect-prone parts of software in order to focus testing is to use different kinds of product metrics such as size or complexity. Although this approach has been evaluated in many contexts, the question…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-02-05 Frank Elberzhager , Stephan Kremer , Jürgen Münch , Danilo Assmann

This paper addresses the ability to enable machines to automatically detect failures on machine tool components as well as estimating the severity of the failures, which is a critical step towards autonomous production machines. Extracting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-01 Tobias Schlagenhauf , Niklas Burghardt

The main aim of decision support systems is to find solutions that satisfy user requirements. Often, this leads to predictability of those solutions, in the sense that having the input data and the model, an adversary or enemy can predict…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2021-01-18 Daniel Karapetyan , Andrew J. Parkes

Software defect prediction is an essential task during the software development Lifecycle as it can help managers to identify the most defect-proneness modules. Thus, it can reduce the test cost and assign testing resources efficiently.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-09-30 Haneen Abu Alhija , Mohammad Azzeh , Fadi Almasalha

The software industry is successful, if it can draw the complete attention of the customers towards it. This is achievable if the organization can produce a high quality product. To identify a product to be of high quality, it should be…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-09-08 V. Suma , T. R. Gopalakrishnan Nair

Data protection across organizations is limiting the application of centralized learning (CL) techniques. Federated learning (FL) enables multiple participants to build a learning model without sharing data. Nevertheless, there are very few…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-29 Ning Ge , Guanghao Li , Li Zhang , Yi Liu Yi Liu

The tools employed in the DevOps Toolchain generates a large quantity of data that is typically ignored or inspected only in particular occasions, at most. However, the analysis of such data could enable the extraction of useful information…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-09-30 Antonio Capizzi , Salvatore Distefano , Manuel Mazzara , Luiz J. P. Araùjo , Muhammad Ahmad , Evgeny Bobrov

While current machine learning models have impressive performance over a wide range of applications, their large size and complexity render them unsuitable for tasks such as remote monitoring on edge devices with limited storage and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-13 Chi Zhang , Yong Sheng Soh , Ling Feng , Tianyi Zhou , Qianxiao Li

Fault localization is an imperative method in fault tolerance in a distributed environment that designs a blueprint for continuing the ongoing process even when one or many modules are non-functional. Visualizing a distributed environment…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-09-24 Narayanaa S R , Sivaranjan M , Lekshmi R S

Smart manufacturing systems are being deployed at a growing rate because of their ability to interpret a wide variety of sensed information and act on the knowledge gleaned from system observations. In many cases, the principal goal of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Mustafa Abdallah , Byung-Gun Joung , Wo Jae Lee , Charilaos Mousoulis , John W. Sutherland , Saurabh Bagchi

Methods for split conformal prediction leverage calibration samples to transform any prediction rule into a set-prediction rule that complies with a target coverage probability. Existing methods provide remarkably strong performance…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-10-15 Santiago Mazuelas

Prescriptive process monitoring is a family of techniques to optimize the performance of a business process by triggering interventions at runtime. Existing prescriptive process monitoring techniques assume that the number of interventions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Mahmoud Shoush , Marlon Dumas