Software defect prediction plays an important role in software quality assurance.However,the performance of the prediction model is susceptible to the irrelevant and redundant features.In addition,previous studies mos...Software defect prediction plays an important role in software quality assurance.However,the performance of the prediction model is susceptible to the irrelevant and redundant features.In addition,previous studies mostly regard software defect prediction as a single objective optimization problem,and multi-objective software defect prediction has not been thoroughly investigated.For the above two reasons,we propose the following solutions in this paper:(1)we leverage an advanced deep neural network-Stacked Contractive AutoEncoder(SCAE)to extract the robust deep semantic features from the original defect features,which has stronger discrimination capacity for different classes(defective or non-defective).(2)we propose a novel multi-objective defect prediction model named SMONGE that utilizes the Multi-Objective NSGAII algorithm to optimize the advanced neural network-Extreme learning machine(ELM)based on state-of-the-art Pareto optimal solutions according to the features extracted by SCAE.We mainly consider two objectives.One objective is to maximize the performance of ELM,which refers to the benefit of the SMONGE model.Another objective is to minimize the output weight norm of ELM,which is related to the cost of the SMONGE model.We compare the SCAE with six state-of-the-art feature extraction methods and compare the SMONGE model with multiple baseline models that contain four classic defect predictors and the MONGE model without SCAE across 20 open source software projects.The experimental results verify that the superiority of SCAE and SMONGE on seven evaluation metrics.展开更多
基金This work is supported in part by the National Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.61672392,61373038)in part by the National Key Research and Development Program of China(Grant No.2016YFC1202204).
文摘Software defect prediction plays an important role in software quality assurance.However,the performance of the prediction model is susceptible to the irrelevant and redundant features.In addition,previous studies mostly regard software defect prediction as a single objective optimization problem,and multi-objective software defect prediction has not been thoroughly investigated.For the above two reasons,we propose the following solutions in this paper:(1)we leverage an advanced deep neural network-Stacked Contractive AutoEncoder(SCAE)to extract the robust deep semantic features from the original defect features,which has stronger discrimination capacity for different classes(defective or non-defective).(2)we propose a novel multi-objective defect prediction model named SMONGE that utilizes the Multi-Objective NSGAII algorithm to optimize the advanced neural network-Extreme learning machine(ELM)based on state-of-the-art Pareto optimal solutions according to the features extracted by SCAE.We mainly consider two objectives.One objective is to maximize the performance of ELM,which refers to the benefit of the SMONGE model.Another objective is to minimize the output weight norm of ELM,which is related to the cost of the SMONGE model.We compare the SCAE with six state-of-the-art feature extraction methods and compare the SMONGE model with multiple baseline models that contain four classic defect predictors and the MONGE model without SCAE across 20 open source software projects.The experimental results verify that the superiority of SCAE and SMONGE on seven evaluation metrics.
基金This work was partially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos. 61673159 and 61370144, and the Natural Science Foundation of Hebei Province of China under Grant No. F2016202145.
文摘极限学习机(Extreme learning machine,ELM)是一种单隐层前馈神经网络(SLFNs),它随机选择网络的隐含层节点及其参数,训练时仅需调节输出层权值,因此ELM以极快的学习速度获得良好的推广性。考虑到ELM的特征映射函数未知时,可以将核矩阵引入到ELM中。针对模型未知的强非线性连续搅拌反应釜(Continuous Stirred Tank Reactor,CSTR),提出一种基于核极限学习机(Extreme Learning Machine with Kernels,KELM)的NARX模型辨识方法。以仿真的CSTR过程实例进行辨识实验,建立基于NARX-KELM的辨识模型。实验结果表明,在相同条件下,与带动量因子的BP神经网络、模糊神经网络(FNN)、GAP-RBF、MGAP-RBF神经网络、回声状态网络(ESN)、ELM等方法相比,KELM能够有效地改进辨识精度,而且性能更好,这表明了所提方法的有效性和应用潜力。
