A number of papers have investigated the relationships between design metrics and the detection of faults in object-oriented software. Several of these studies have shown that suc...
We propose a formal real-time semantics for UML statecharts aimed at the requirements level. A requirements-level model assumes perfect technology and has a considerably simpler se...
This paper deals with the performance analysis of a system modeled by a queue. If we are interested in occupation problems and if we look at the transient phase, then it makes sen...
In this paper, we propose an estimation method of user satisfaction for a spoken dialog system using an N-gram-based dialog history model. We have collected a large amount of spok...
A number of standalone tools are designed to help developers understand software systems. These tools operate at different levels of abstraction, from low level source code to sof...
Ivan T. Bowman, Michael W. Godfrey, Richard C. Hol...