We study the impact of design patterns on quality attributes in the context of software maintenance and evolution. We show that, contrary to popular beliefs, design patterns in pr...
—A widely shared belief in the software engineering community is that stack traces are much sought after by developers to support them in debugging. But limited empirical evidenc...
Abstract. We propose semantic distance measures based on the criterion of approximate discernibility and on evidence combination. In the presence of incomplete knowledge, the dista...
Multi-classifier combination based on Dempster-Shafer theory of evidence has demonstrated it’s superior performance. In the approach based on Dempster-Shafer theory, the basic ...
The second author has put forward a theory of incomplete interval probabilities meant to give a common framework to both interval probabilities and openframe bodies of evidence, a...