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most citedAn Empirical Study on the Effectiveness of Data Resampling Approaches for Cross-Project Software Defect Prediction

42 citations · 78 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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Modelling Regime Shifts in Continuous Intraday Electricity Markets with State-dependent Hawkes Processes

Ayoub Jhabli, Tarek AlSkaif, Kwabena E. Bennin +3

The growing importance of intraday trading in Europe, driven by the increasing penetration of renewable energy sources, has led to higher volatility and periods of market stress. U…

cs.SE2024

Personalization of Code Readability Evaluation Based on LLM Using Collaborative Filtering

Buntaro Hiraki, Kensei Hamamoto, Ami Kimura +5

Code readability is an important indicator of software maintenance as it can significantly impact maintenance efforts. Recently, LLM (large language models) have been utilized for…

cs.SE2024

An Empirical Study of the Impact of Test Strategies on Online Optimization for Ensemble-Learning Defect Prediction

Kensei Hamamoto, Masateru Tsunoda, Amjed Tahir +5

Ensemble learning methods have been used to enhance the reliability of defect prediction models. However, there is an inconclusive stability of a single method attaining the highes…

cs.SE2024

Building Defect Prediction Models by Online Learning Considering Defect Overlooking

Nikolay Fedorov, Yuta Yamasaki, Masateru Tsunoda +5

Building defect prediction models based on online learning can enhance prediction accuracy. It continuously rebuilds a new prediction model, when a new data point is added. However…

cs.SE2024

The Impact of Defect (Re) Prediction on Software Testing

Yukasa Murakami, Yuta Yamasaki, Masateru Tsunoda +5

Cross-project defect prediction (CPDP) aims to use data from external projects as historical data may not be available from the same project. In CPDP, deciding on a particular hist…

cs.SE2023

Selecting Source Code Generation Tools Based on Bandit Algorithms

Ryoto Shima, Masateru Tsunoda, Yukasa Murakami +5

Background: Recently, code generation tools such as ChatGPT have drawn attention to their performance. Generally, a prior analysis of their performance is needed to select new code…

cs.SE2023

Software Defect Prediction by Online Learning Considering Defect Overlooking

Yuta Yamasaki, Nikolay Fedorov, Masateru Tsunoda +5

Building defect prediction models based on online learning can enhance prediction accuracy. It continuously rebuilds a new prediction model when adding a new data point. However, p…

cs.SE2022★ 2 cited

On the Use of Deep Learning in Software Defect Prediction

Görkem Giray, Kwabena Ebo Bennin, Ömer Köksal +2

Context: Automated software defect prediction (SDP) methods are increasingly applied, often with the use of machine learning (ML) techniques. Yet, the existing ML-based approaches…

cs.SE2022★ 42 cited

An Empirical Study on the Effectiveness of Data Resampling Approaches for Cross-Project Software Defect Prediction

Kwabena Ebo Bennin, Amjed Tahir, Stephen G. MacDonell +1

Crossp-roject defect prediction (CPDP), where data from different software projects are used to predict defects, has been proposed as a way to provide data for software projects th…

cs.SE2021

Does class size matter? An in-depth assessment of the effect of class size in software defect prediction

Amjed Tahir, Kwabena E. Bennin, Xun Xiao +1

In the past 20 years, defect prediction studies have generally acknowledged the effect of class size on software prediction performance. To quantify the relationship between object…

cs.SE2021★ 12 cited

Investigating the Significance of Bellwether Effect to Improve Software Effort Estimation

Solomon Mensah, Jacky Keung, Stephen G. MacDonell +2

Bellwether effect refers to the existence of exemplary projects (called the Bellwether) within a historical dataset to be used for improved prediction performance. Recent studies h…

cs.SE2021★ 15 cited

Investigating the Significance of the Bellwether Effect to Improve Software Effort Prediction: Further Empirical Study

Solomon Mensah, Jacky Keung, Stephen G. MacDonell +2

Context: In addressing how best to estimate how much effort is required to develop software, a recent study found that using exemplary and recently completed projects [forming Bell…

cs.SE2021★ 7 cited

Revisiting the size effect in software fault prediction models

Amjed Tahir, Kwabena E. Bennin, Stephen G. MacDonell +1

BACKGROUND: In object oriented (OO) software systems, class size has been acknowledged as having an indirect effect on the relationship between certain artifact characteristics, ca…