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Record W90182043

Data-mining in Support of Detecting Class Co-evolution.

2004· article· en· W90182043 on OpenAlex

Why this work is in the frame

A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.

Bibliographic record

VenueSoftware Engineering and Knowledge Engineering · 2004
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicSoftware Engineering Research
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Alberta
Fundersnot available
KeywordsComputer scienceAssociation rule learningApriori algorithmClass (philosophy)Data miningClass diagramSequence diagramUnified Modeling LanguageA priori and a posterioriSoftware evolutionSoftware systemSoftwareArtificial intelligenceProgramming language
DOInot available

Abstract

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In an evolving system maintained over a long time period, there exist many non-trivial relationships among system classes, such as class co-evolutions, which usually are not easily perceivable in the source code. However, unfortunately, the continuing evolution of large, long-lived systems leads to lost information about these hidden relationships. In this paper, we propose a method for recovering such lost knowledge by data mining method. This method relies on the UMLDiff algorithm that, given a sequence of UML class models of a system, surfaces the design-level changes over its life span, thus eliminating the need for high quality modification reports and nonintuitive software code-based metrics. We employ Apriori association rule mining algorithm to the transactional database of class modifications, which elicit previously unknown or undocumented co-evolving relations among two or more classes. The recovered knowledge facilitates the overall understanding of system evolution and the planning of future maintaining activities. We report on one real world case study evaluating our approach.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.003
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: Simulation or modeling
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.632
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.003
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.001
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.022
GPT teacher head0.269
Teacher spread0.247 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it