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New Presentations and Publications

Norman Fenton's invited keynote talk at Mathematical Methods in Reliability (MMR 07), Glasgow 1-4 July 2007: "Using Bayesian Networks to Predict Software Defects and Reliability" (by Fenton NE, Neil M, Marquez D)

Norman Fenton's invited keynote talk at the IEEE ICSE PROMISE 07 Workshop, Minneapolis, 20 May 2007: "New Directions in Software Metrics" (will be based on this earlier keynote at CIO 2006).

Martin Neil's accepted paper at Mathematical Methods in Reliability (MMR 07), Glasgow 1-4 July 2007: "A new Bayesian Network approach to Reliability modelling" (by Neil M, Marquez D, Fenton NE).

Norman Fenton's acepted paper at the IEEE ICSE PROMISE 07 Workshop, Minneapolis, 20 May 2007: "Project Data Incorporating Qualitative Factors for Improved Software Defect Prediction" (by Fenton NE, Neil M, Marsh W, Hearty P, Krause P, Radliński Ł.). The dataset and model associated with this paper can be found here.

Fenton and Neil's seminal work on ranked nodes, to appear in IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering: "Using Ranked nodes to model qualitative judgements in Bayesian Networks" (by Fenton NE, Neil M, Caballero J)

Neil and Tailor's seminal work on dynamic discretisation, to appear in the Statistics and Computing Journal "Using Bayesian Networks to Predict Software Defects and Reliability Inference in Hybrid Bayesian Networks using Dynamic Discretisation", (by Neil M, Tailor M and Marquez D). A new extension of this work is to appear in Reliability Engineering & System Safety: "Modelling dependable systems using hybrid Bayesian networks" (by Neil M , Tailor M, Marquez D, Fenton NE, and Hearty P)

Khodakarami's work on BNs for project scheduling, to appear in the Project Management Journal: “Project Scheduling: Improved approach to incorporate uncertainty using Bayesian Networks” (by Khodakarami V, Fenton NE, Neil M)