Self-adaptation of the mutation strengths is a powerful mechanism in evolution strategies (ES), but it can fail. As a consequence premature convergence or ending up in a local opt...
When it is impractical to rigorously assess all parts of complex systems, test engineers use defect detectors to focus their limited resources. In this article, we define some pr...
Tim Menzies, Justin S. Di Stefano, Kareem Ammar, K...
We investigate four hierarchical clustering methods (single-link, complete-link, groupwise-average, and single-pass) and two linguistically motivated text features (noun phrase he...
Vasileios Hatzivassiloglou, Luis Gravano, Ankineed...
This paper introduces mass estimation—a base modelling mechanism in data mining. It provides the theoretical basis of mass and an efficient method to estimate mass. We show that...
Kai Ming Ting, Guang-Tong Zhou, Fei Tony Liu, Jame...
We present an interactive learning method that enables a user to iteratively refine a regression model. The user examines the output of the model, visualized as the vertical axis ...