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Assessing Traceability of Software Engineering Artifacts (with Senthil Karthikeyan Sundaram, Jane Huffman Hayes, and E. Ashlee Holbrook), Requirements Engineering (2010)

The generation of traceability links or traceability matrices is vital to many software engineering activities....

 

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Planning For Success: The Interdisciplinary Approach to Building Bayesian Models (with Judy Goldsmith, Beth Goldstein, Krol Kevin Mathias, and Cynthia Isenhour), International Journal of Approximate Reasoning (2009)

This paper describes a process by which anthropologists, computer scientists, and social welfare case managers...

 

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The Theory of Interval Probabilistic Logic Programs (with Michael I. Dekhtyar), Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence (2009)

Two approaches to logic programming with probabilities emerged over time: Bayesian reasoning and probabilistic satisfiability...

 

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Problems with Precision: A Response to “Comments on ‘Data Mining Static Code Attributes to Learn Defect Predictors’” (with Tim Menzies, Justin Distefano, and Jeremy Greenwald), IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (2007)

Zhang and Zhang argue that predictors are useless unless they have high precison & recall....

 

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REquirements Tracing On target (RETRO): Improving Software Maintenance through Traceability Recovery (with Jane Huffman Hayes, Senthil Sundaram, E. Ashlee Holbrook, Sravanthi Vadlamudi, and Alain April), Innovations in Systems and Software Engineering (2007)

A number of important tasks in software maintenance require an up-to-date requirements traceability matrix (RTM):...

 

Conference Proceedings

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Automated Requirements Traceability: The Study of Human Analysts (with David Cuddeback and Jane Huffman Hayes), 18th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference Proceedings: Sydney, NSW, Australia. (2010)

The requirements traceability matrix (RTM) supports many software engineering and software verification and validation (V&V)...

 

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On Measuring the Quality of Wikipedia Articles (with Gabriel De La Calzada), 4th International Workshop on Information Credibility on the Web Proceedings (2010)

This paper discusses an approach to modeling and measuring information quality of Wikipedia articles. The...

 

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Toward Automating Requirements Satisfaction Assessment (with E. Ashlee Holbrook and Jane Huffman Hayes), 17th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference Proceedings: Atlanta, GA (2009)

This paper introduces the automation of satisfaction assessment: the process of determining the satisfaction mapping...

 

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Towards Traceable Test-Driven Development (with Jane Huffman Hayes and David S. Janzen), Traceability in Emerging Forms of Software Engineering Conference Proceedings: Vancouver, BC (2009)

Key among the grand challenges in traceability are those that lead to achieving traceability as...

 

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JOXM: Java Object —XML Mapping (with Adam Dukovich, Jimmy Hua, Jong Seo Lee, and Michael Huffman), 8th Conference on Web Engineering Conference Proceedings: Yorktown Heights, NJ. (2008)

Java object XML mapping (JOXM) is a library that supports the automated persistence and querying...

 

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Uncertainty as the Source of Knowledge Transfer Opportunity (with Jane Huffman Hayes and Judy Goldsmith), First International Workshop on Living with Uncertainty in Software Engineering (IWLU’2007): Atlanta, GA, (2007)

Uncertainty creeps into the software development process in many ways, shapes and forms. In the...

 

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Good Benchmarks are Hard To Find: Toward the Benchmark for Information Retrieval Applications in Software Engineering (with Jane Huffman Hayes), Information Retrieval in Software Engineering, International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM): Philadelphia, PA. (2006)

Seven to eight years ago, the number of applications of Information Retrieval (IR) methods in...

 

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Factored MDP Elicitation and Plan Display (with Krol Kevin Mathias, Casey Lengacher, Derek Williams, Austin Cornett, and Judy Goldsmith), The Twenty-First National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-06) Proceedings: Boston, MA (2006)

The software suite we will demonstrate at AAAI ’06 was designed around planning with factored...

 

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A Framework for Processing Complex Document-centric XML with Overlapping Structures (with Ionut E. Iacob), ACM Special Interest Group on Management Of Data Conference Proceedings: Baltimore, MD. (2005)

Management of multihierarchical XML encodings has attracted attention of a number of researchers both in...

 

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Edition Production Technology: an Eclipse based platform for building Image-based Electronic Editions (with Ionut E. Iacob, Jerzy W. Jaromczyk, Kevin Kiernan, Neil Moore, and Dorothy Carr Porter), International ACH-ALLC Conference-2005 Proceedings: Victoria, Canada (2005)