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The aim is to identify faulty predicates which have strong effect on program failure. Statistical debugging techniques are amongst best methods for pinpointing defects within the program source code. However, they have some drawbacks. They…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-12-20 Farid Feyzi , Esmaeel Nikravan , Saeed Parsa

Precisely and automatically detection of faults in programs, is a software engineering dream. Every effort in this regard takes us one step closer to realizing it. Many efforts have been taken from the people of these areas on testing,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2013-08-13 Safeeullah Soomro , Zahid Hussain , Ayaz Keerio

Fault localization is a popular research topic and many techniques have been proposed to locate faults in imperative code, e.g. C and Java. In this paper, we focus on the problem of fault localization for declarative models in Alloy -- a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-07-24 Kaiyuan Wang , Allison Sullivan , Darko Marinov , Sarfraz Khurshid

The importance of mission or safety critical software systems in many application domains of embedded systems is continuously growing, and so is the effort and complexity for reliability and safety analysis. Model driven development is…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Kai Hoefig , Andreas Joanni , Marc Zeller , Francesco Montrone , Martin Rothfelder , Rakshith Amarnath , Peter Munk , Arne Nordmann

Fault localization is an essential step in the debugging process. Spectrum-Based Fault Localization (SBFL) is a popular fault localization family of techniques, utilizing code-coverage to predict suspicious lines of code. In this paper, we…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-03-17 André Silva , Matias Martinez , Benjamin Danglot , Davide Ginelli , Martin Monperrus

Novice programmers often face challenges in fault localization due to their limited experience and understanding of programming syntax and logic. Traditional methods like Spectrum-Based Fault Localization (SBFL) and Mutation-Based Fault…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Hexiang Xu , Hengyuan Liu , Yonghao Wu , Xiaolan Kang , Xiang Chen , Yong Liu

The growing complexity of safety-relevant systems causes an increasing effort for safety assurance. The reduction of development costs and time-to-market, while guaranteeing safe operation, is therefore a major challenge. In order to enable…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Sebastian Reiter , Marc Zeller , Kai Hoefig , Alexander Viehl , Oliver Bringmann , Wolfgang Rosenstiel

Fault localization is a critical step in software maintenance. Yet, many existing techniques, such as Spectrum-Based Fault Localization (SBFL), rely heavily on the availability of fault-triggering tests to be effective. In practice,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Md Nakhla Rafi , Lorena Barreto Simedo Pacheco , An Ran Chen , Jinqiu Yang , Tse-Hsun , Chen

Accurately predicting faulty software units helps practitioners target faulty units and prioritize their efforts to maintain software quality. Prior studies use machine-learning models to detect faulty software code. We revisit past studies…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-01-08 Libo Li , Stefan Lessmann , Bart Baesens

Bayesian optimization (BO) is a popular, sample-efficient technique for expensive, black-box optimization. One such problem arising in manufacturing is that of maximizing the reliability, or equivalently minimizing the probability of a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Jack M. Buckingham , Ivo Couckuyt , Juergen Branke

Global mobile robot localization is the problem of determining a robot's pose in an environment, using sensor data, when the starting position is unknown. A family of probabilistic algorithms known as Monte Carlo Localization (MCL) is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Javier Nicolas Sanchez , Adam Milstein , Evan Williamson

We propose a general solution to the problem of robust Bayesian inference in complex settings where outliers may be present. In practice, the automation of robust Bayesian analyses is important in the many applications involving large and…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-04-15 Jeremie Houssineau , David J. Nott

Bayesian optimization (BO) is a sequential optimization strategy that is increasingly employed in a wide range of areas including materials design. In real world applications, acquiring high-fidelity (HF) data through physical experiments…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Zahra Zanjani Foumani , Amin Yousefpour , Mehdi Shishehbor , Ramin Bostanabad

The impracticality of posterior sampling has prevented the widespread adoption of spike-and-slab priors in high-dimensional applications. To alleviate the computational burden, optimization strategies have been proposed that quickly find…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-03-30 Lizhen Nie , Veronika Ročková

Fault localization is a process to find the location of faults. It determines the root cause of the failure. It identifies the causes of abnormal behaviour of a faulty program. It identifies exactly where the bugs are. Existing fault…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2012-01-20 A. Askarunisa , T. Manju , B. Giri Babu

Providing timely and personalized guidance for students' programming assignments, offers significant practical value for helping students complete assignments and enhance their learning. In recent years, various automated Fault Localization…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Fang Liu , Tianze Wang , Li Zhang , Zheyu Yang , Jing Jiang , Zian Sun

We aim at assessing the states of the nodes in a network by means of end-to-end monitoring paths. The contribution of this paper is twofold. First, we consider a static failure scenario. In this context, we aim at minimizing the number of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Viviana Arrigoni , Novella Bartolini , Annalisa Massini , Federico Trombetti

Root cause analysis is one of the most crucial operations in software reliability regarding system performance diagnostic. It aims to identify the root causes of system performance anomalies, allowing the resolution or the future prevention…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Andrea Tonon , Meng Zhang , Bora Caglayan , Fei Shen , Tong Gui , MingXue Wang , Rong Zhou

Scientists often must simultaneously localize and discover signals. For instance, in genetic fine-mapping, high correlations between nearby genetic variants make it hard to identify the exact locations of causal variants. So the statistical…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-01-31 Asher Spector , Lucas Janson

Reasoning about causes and effects naturally arises in the engineering of safety-critical systems. A classical example is Fault Tree Analysis, a deductive technique used for system safety assessment, whereby an undesired state is reduced to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-10-11 Marco Bozzano