Measurement and detection of redundancy in test suites attempt to achieve test minimization which in turn can help reduce test maintenance costs, and to also ensure the integrity of test cases. Test suite reduction ba...
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Measurement and detection of redundancy in test suites attempt to achieve test minimization which in turn can help reduce test maintenance costs, and to also ensure the integrity of test cases. Test suite reduction based on coverage information has been discussed in many previous works. However, the applications of such techniques on real test suites and realistic measurements of redundancy have not yet been experimented thoroughly. To address such a need, we formulate in this paper two experimental metrics for coverage-based measurement of test redundancy in the context of JUnit test suites. We then evaluate the approach by measuring the redundancy of four real Java projects. The automated measures are compared with manual redundancy decisions (performed through an inspection by a tester). The results and lessons learned are interesting and somewhat surprising in that besides they show usefulness of coverage information, they present a set of shortcomings (in terms of precision) for the simplistic coverage-based redundancy measurement approach as discussed in the literature. The root-cause analysis of our observations identify several key lessons learned which should help the testing researchers and practitioners in devising better techniques for more precise measurement of test redundancy.
For decades, US universities and colleges have had policies pertaining to the conduct of their students at the institutional level. These policies are referred to as Academic Integrity Policies or Codes of Conduct. Th...
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This paper proposes a hybrid multilogistic model, named multilogistic regression using initial and radial basis function covariates (MLRIRBF). The process for obtaining the coefficients is carried out in several steps...
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This paper proposes a hybrid multilogistic model, named multilogistic regression using initial and radial basis function covariates (MLRIRBF). The process for obtaining the coefficients is carried out in several steps. First, an evolutionary programming (EP) algorithm is applied, aimed to produce a RBF neural network (RBFNN) with a reduced number of RBF transformations and the simplest structure possible. Then, the input space is transformed by adding the nonlinear transformations of the input variables given by the RBFs of the best individual in the last generation. Finally, a maximum likelihood optimization method determines the coefficients associated with a multilogistic regression model built on this transformed input space. In this final step, two different multilogistic regression algorithms are applied, one that considers all initial and RBF covariates (MLRIRBF) and another one that incrementally constructs the model and applies cross-validation, resulting in an automatic covariate selection (MLRIRBF*). The methodology proposed is tested using six benchmark classification problems from well-known machine learning problems. The results are compared with the corresponding multilogistic regression methodologies applied over the initial input space, to the RBFNNs obtained by the EP algorithm (RBFEP) and to other competitive machine learning techniques. The MLRIRBF* models are found to be better than the corresponding multilogistic regression methodologies and the RBFEP method for almost all datasets, and obtain the highest mean accuracy rank when compared to the rest of methods in all datasets.
Loosing motor activity due to impaired or damaged nerves or muscles affects millions of people world-wide. The resulting lack of mobility and/or impaired communication bears enormous personal, economical and social co...
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(纸本)9781605584096
Loosing motor activity due to impaired or damaged nerves or muscles affects millions of people world-wide. The resulting lack of mobility and/or impaired communication bears enormous personal, economical and social costs. While several assistive technologies exist, they rely on device surrogates to compensate for the lack of movement and thus provide limited utility and unnatural interface with the user. The ability of interfacing populations of neurons with super high-density multielectrode arrays (SD-MEA) can provide the sensing from and control of bionics devices by thought. Here we propose a neurointerfacing approach using SD-MEAs coated with carbon nanotubes and high-speed computing to overcome latency and long-term electrical viability bottlenecks that are essential in assistive environments. The proposed approach provides ability for fast integration of recording/stimulation from thousands of individually addressable electrodes, while coordinating a real-time computing approach to register, recognize, analyze and respond appropriately to the biological signals from the motor neurons and sensory signals from the robotic prosthesis. Copyright 2009 ACM.
In this paper, comparison of network motifs in giant strong component (GSC) of metabolic networks is proposed and presented. Firstly, the use of metabolic reaction data to generate metabolic networks of 10 organisms f...
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In this paper, comparison of network motifs in giant strong component (GSC) of metabolic networks is proposed and presented. Firstly, the use of metabolic reaction data to generate metabolic networks of 10 organisms from different categories is achieved. Subsequently, the GSC of each metabolic network was extracted and the network motifs of these GSCs are studied. The results showed that the motifs found are different among taxonomies, but quite consistent within the taxonomy. It suggested that analysis of network motifs in GSCs might more helpful to understand fundamental organizational principles of metabolic networks.
In order to reduce the labor-intensive nature of evaluating quality of fused tracks in a multi-sensor, multi-platform environment, the metrics assessment system (MAS) was developed to provide heavily automated, real-t...
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(纸本)9780982443804
In order to reduce the labor-intensive nature of evaluating quality of fused tracks in a multi-sensor, multi-platform environment, the metrics assessment system (MAS) was developed to provide heavily automated, real-time metric calculation and display. The MAS presents metrics in tables and graphs within the tactical display and provides overlays on the tactical display for focused assessment. Originally, MAS included standard kinematic metrics, but more recent work has generated additional metrics based on track-to-track versions of track purity, target effectiveness, and assignment accuracy, metrics derived from a confusion matrix analysis of the fused and known truth tracks, and receiver operating characteristic curves. Data mining tools were used to assess the effectiveness of candidate metrics for inclusion in the MAS. This paper describes the metrics, the evaluations, and the framework for metric assessment which this work has provided.
The purpose of this study is to consider that how to help instructors re-organize a well-structured teaching material utilizing existing learning objects. To cope with this problem, this study adopts a novel approach ...
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For decades, US universities and colleges have had policies pertaining to the conduct of their students at the institutional level. These policies are referred to as Academic Integrity Policies or Codes of Conduct. Th...
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For decades, US universities and colleges have had policies pertaining to the conduct of their students at the institutional level. These policies are referred to as Academic Integrity Policies or Codes of Conduct. The Code of Ethics, instituted by Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) has been the standard for the computing sciences profession for over 15 years. However, the traditional institution-wide academic integrity policies have not adapted to the complexities that arose from rapid progress in information technology (IT) and thus either fail to address or are in conflict with the nature of problems in computerscience education. In this paper, we propose a model for development and implementation of an academic ethics policy (ethics is a broader concept that includes integrity) that addresses the challenges imposed by information technology vis-á-vis the best modern teaching practices in computersciences and engineering. Implementing policies that are more in line with the methods of industry and compatible with newer educational pedagogies should make the whole educational environment more engaging to students.
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