| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/M75143/01 |
| Title: |
SOFTWARE SYSTEM IMPROVEMENT THROUGH INDUCTIVE DATA MINING |
| Principal Investigator: |
Partridge, Professor D |
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| Department: |
Computer Science |
| Organisation: |
University of Exeter |
| Scheme: |
Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
01 January 2000 |
Ends: |
30 June 2003 |
Value (£): |
149,882
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| EPSRC Research Topic Classifications: |
| Information & Knowledge Mgmt |
Software Engineering |
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| Aerospace, Defence and Marine |
Information Technologies |
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A specification is the traditional foundation for the software development process. A specification for a practical problem (i.e. not an abstract problem like GCD) is an abstraction from, and hence an approximation to, some real phenomenon. Using a complex operational, but far from optimal, software system --- the STCA systems used to advise air-traffic controllers --- we propose to apply inductive computing technologies (neutral computing and automatic rule induction) to elicit information from the raw data that the operational system processes on a daily basis. The information so gained, or the data mined, will then be applied in a variety of ways, both direct and indirect, to improve the STCA system specification and hence improve the operational system. A variety basic data-mining techniques have been identified and three different general strategies for subsequent software system enhancement have been described. The proposed programme will systematically explore and evaluate these technologies and ways of using the information extracted with a view to improving the specification and operational performance of the STCA system as well as developing general software enhancement data-mining techniques.
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