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A general software defect-proneness prediction framework
This is the author's accepted manuscript. The final published article is available from the link below. Copyright @ 2011 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other users, including reprinting/ republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted components of this work in other works.BACKGROUND - Predicting defect-prone software components is an economically important activity and so has received a good deal of attention. However, making sense of the many, and sometimes seemingly inconsistent, results is difficult. OBJECTIVE - We propose and evaluate a general framework for software defect prediction that supports 1) unbiased and 2) comprehensive comparison between competing prediction systems. METHOD - The framework is comprised of 1) scheme evaluation and 2) defect prediction components. The scheme evaluation analyzes the prediction performance of competing learning schemes for given historical data sets. The defect predictor builds models according to the evaluated learning scheme and predicts software defects with new data according to the constructed model. In order to demonstrate the performance of the proposed framework, we use both simulation and publicly available software defect data sets. RESULTS - The results show that we should choose different learning schemes for different data sets (i.e., no scheme dominates), that small details in conducting how evaluations are conducted can completely reverse findings, and last, that our proposed framework is more effective and less prone to bias than previous approaches. CONCLUSIONS - Failure to properly or fully evaluate a learning scheme can be misleading; however, these problems may be overcome by our proposed framework.National Natural Science Foundation of
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Computation of the order low-energy constants with tensor sources
We present the results of calculations of the and order
low-energy constants for the chiral Lagrangian with tensor sources for both two
and three flavors of pseudoscalar mesons. This is a generalization of our
previous work on similar calculations without tensor sources in terms of the
quark self-energy , based on the first principle derivation of the
low-energy effective Lagrangian and computation of the low-energy constants
with some rough approximations. With the help of partial integration and some
epsilon relations, we find that some order operators with tensor sources
appearing in the literature are related to each other. That leaves 98
independent terms for -flavor, 92 terms for three-flavor, and 65 terms for
two-flavor cases. We also find that the odd-intrinsic-parity chiral Lagrangian
with tensor sources cannot independently exist in any order of low-energy
expansion.Comment: 29 page
Absolute continuity of symmetric Markov processes
We study Girsanov's theorem in the context of symmetric Markov processes,
extending earlier work of Fukushima-Takeda and Fitzsimmons on Girsanov
transformations of ``gradient type.'' We investigate the most general Girsanov
transformation leading to another symmetric Markov process. This investigation
requires an extension of the forward-backward martingale method of Lyons-Zheng,
to cover the case of processes with jumps.Comment: Published by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics
(http://www.imstat.org) in the Annals of Probability
(http://www.imstat.org/aop/) at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/00911790400000043
Computation of the p6 order chiral Lagrangian coefficients from the underlying theory of QCD
We present results of computing the p6 order low energy constants in the
normal part of chiral Lagrangian both for two and three flavor pseudo-scalar
mesons. This is a generalization of our previous work on calculating the p4
order coefficients of the chiral Lagrangian in terms of the quark self energy
Sigma(p2) approximately from QCD. We show that most of our results are
consistent with those we can find in the literature.Comment: 51 pages,2 figure
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