Topic modeling in software engineering research

CC Silva, M Galster, F Gilson - Empirical Software Engineering, 2021 - Springer
Topic modeling using models such as Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) is a text mining
technique to extract human-readable semantic “topics”(ie, word clusters) from a corpus of …

[HTML][HTML] Evidence-based decision-making: On the use of systematicity cases to check the compliance of reviews with reporting guidelines such as PRISMA 2020

AB Belle, Y Zhao - Expert Systems with Applications, 2023 - Elsevier
Background and context Systematic reviews aim to provide high-quality evidence-based
syntheses for efficacy under real-world conditions and allow understanding the correlations …

Evidence-based software engineering: a checklist-based approach to assess the abstracts of reviews self-identifying as systematic reviews

A Boaye Belle, Y Zhao - Applied Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
A systematic review allows synthesizing the state of knowledge related to a clearly
formulated research question as well as understanding the correlations between exposures …

Towards a reference process for software architecture reconstruction

D Guamán, J Pérez, J Diaz, CE Cuesta - IET Software, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Nowadays, software systems remain useful and competitive; entail the inevitable need to
change over time and to be adapted to new technologies, platforms, and architectures …

Position paper: a vision for the dynamic safety assurance of ML-enabled autonomous driving systems

AB Belle, H Hemmati… - 2023 IEEE 31st …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ensuring the progress of autonomous driving technology can save lives, prevent injuries,
and enable reductions in traffic volume, accidents, and environmental damage caused by …

Software remodularization by estimating structural and conceptual relations among classes and using hierarchical clustering

A Rathee, JK Chhabra - … , ICAICR 2017, Jalandhar, India, March 17–18 …, 2017 - Springer
In this paper, we have presented a technique of software remodularization by estimating
conceptual similarity among software elements (Classes). The proposed technique makes …

Software architecture module-view recovery using cluster ensembles

C Cho, KS Lee, M Lee, CG Lee - IEEE Access, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Software architecture documents are valuable assets supporting the maintenance process
for software systems. Unfortunately, in many projects, software architecture documentation is …

[HTML][HTML] A data-driven approach for understanding invalid bug reports: An industrial case study

M Laiq, N bin Ali, J Börstler, E Engström - Information and Software …, 2023 - Elsevier
Context: Bug reports created during software development and maintenance do not always
describe deviations from a system's valid behavior. Such invalid bug reports may consume …

Design and implementation of distributed expert systems: On a control strategy to manage the execution flow of rule activation

AB Belle, TC Lethbridge, M Garzón… - Expert Systems with …, 2018 - Elsevier
There is a rich body of work dedicated to expert systems. However, none of them focus on
control strategies suitable for distributed environments. We describe a novel approach to …

A novel approach to measure confidence and uncertainty in assurance cases

AB Belle, TC Lethbridge, S Kpodjedo… - 2019 IEEE 27th …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A Novel Approach to Measure Confidence and Uncertainty in Assurance Cases Page 1 A
novel approach to measure confidence and uncertainty in assurance cases Alvine Boaye …