Artificial Intelligence Methods for Optimization of the Software Testing Process: With Practical Examples and Exercises presents different AI-based solutions for overcoming the uncertainty found in many initial testing problems. The concept of intelligent decision making is presented as a multi-criteria, multi-objective undertaking. The book provides guidelines on how to manage diverse types of uncertainty with intelligent decision-making that can help subject matter experts in many industries improve various processes in a more efficient way. As the number of required test cases for testing a product can be large (in industry more than 10,000 test cases are usually created). Executing all these test cases without any particular order can impact the results of the test execution, hence this book fills the need for a comprehensive resource on the topics on the how's, what's and whys. To learn more about Elsevier's Series, Uncertainty, Computational Techniques and Decision Intelligence, please visit this link: https://www.elsevier.com/books-and-journals/book-series/uncertainty-computational-techniques-and-decision-intelligence - Presents one of the first empirical studies in the field, contrasting theoretical assumptions on innovations in a real industrial environment with a large set of use cases from developed and developing testing processes at various large industries - Explores specific comparative methodologies, focusing on developed and developing AI-based solutions - Serves as a guideline for conducting industrial research in the artificial intelligence and software testing domain - Explains all proposed solutions through real industrial case studies
An inadequate infrastructure for software testing is causing major losses to the world economy. The characteristics of software quality problems are quite similar to other tasks successfully tackled by artificial intelligence techniques. The aims of this book are to present state-of-the-art applications of artificial intelligence and data mining methods to quality assurance of complex software systems, and to encourage further research in this important and challenging area.
Recent improvements in business process strategies have allowed more opportunities to attain greater developmental performances. This has led to higher success in day-to-day production and overall competitive advantage. The Handbook of Research on Manufacturing Process Modeling and Optimization Strategies is a pivotal reference source for the latest research on the various manufacturing methodologies and highlights the best optimization approaches to achieve boosted process performance. Featuring extensive coverage on relevant areas such as genetic algorithms, fuzzy set theory, and soft computing techniques, this publication is an ideal resource for researchers, practitioners, academicians, designers, manufacturing engineers, and institutions involved in design and manufacturing projects.
Handbook of Metaheuristic Algorithms: From Fundamental Theories to Advanced Applications provides a brief introduction to metaheuristic algorithms from the ground up, including basic ideas and advanced solutions. Although readers may be able to find source code for some metaheuristic algorithms on the Internet, the coding styles and explanations are generally quite different, and thus requiring expanded knowledge between theory and implementation. This book can also help students and researchers construct an integrated perspective of metaheuristic and unsupervised algorithms for artificial intelligence research in computer science and applied engineering domains. Metaheuristic algorithms can be considered the epitome of unsupervised learning algorithms for the optimization of engineering and artificial intelligence problems, including simulated annealing (SA), tabu search (TS), genetic algorithm (GA), ant colony optimization (ACO), particle swarm optimization (PSO), differential evolution (DE), and others. Distinct from most supervised learning algorithms that need labeled data to learn and construct determination models, metaheuristic algorithms inherit characteristics of unsupervised learning algorithms used for solving complex engineering optimization problems without labeled data, just like self-learning, to find solutions to complex problems. - Presents a unified framework for metaheuristics and describes well-known algorithms and their variants - Introduces fundamentals and advanced topics for solving engineering optimization problems, e.g., scheduling problems, sensors deployment problems, and clustering problems - Includes source code based on the unified framework for metaheuristics used as examples to show how TS, SA, GA, ACO, PSO, DE, parallel metaheuristic algorithm, hybrid metaheuristic, local search, and other advanced technologies are realized in programming languages such as C++ and Python
Reachable Sets of Dynamic Systems: Uncertainty, Sensitivity, and Complex Dynamics introduces differential inclusions, providing an overview as well as multiple examples of its interdisciplinary applications. The design of dynamic systems of any type is an important issue as is the influence of uncertainty in model parameters and model sensitivity. The possibility of calculating the reachable sets may be a powerful additional tool in such tasks. This book can help graduate students, researchers, and engineers working in the field of computer simulation and model building, in the calculation of reachable sets of dynamic models. - Introduces methodologies and approaches to the modeling and simulation of dynamic systems - Presents uncertainty treatment and model sensitivity are described, and interdisciplinary examples - Explores applications of differential inclusions in modeling and simulation
Software is an integral part of our lives today. Modern software systems are highly complex and often pose new challenges in different aspects of Software Engineering (SE).Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a growing field in computer science that has been proven effective in applying and developing AI techniques to address various SE challenges.This unique compendium covers applications of state-of-the-art AI techniques to the key areas of SE (design, development, debugging, testing, etc).All the materials presented are up-to-date. This reference text will benefit researchers, academics, professionals, and postgraduate students in AI, machine learning and software engineering.Related Link(s)
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Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Process Systems Engineering offers a broad perspective on the issues related to artificial intelligence technologies and their applications in chemical and process engineering. The book comprehensively introduces the methodology and applications of AI technologies in process systems engineering, making it an indispensable reference for researchers and students. As chemical processes and systems are usually non-linear and complex, thus making it challenging to apply AI methods and technologies, this book is an ideal resource on emerging areas such as cloud computing, big data, the industrial Internet of Things and deep learning. With process systems engineering's potential to become one of the driving forces for the development of AI technologies, this book covers all the right bases. - Explains the concept of machine learning, deep learning and state-of-the-art intelligent algorithms - Discusses AI-based applications in process modeling and simulation, process integration and optimization, process control, and fault detection and diagnosis - Gives direction to future development trends of AI technologies in chemical and process engineering
Data Democracy: At the Nexus of Artificial Intelligence, Software Development, and Knowledge Engineering provides a manifesto to data democracy. After reading the chapters of this book, you are informed and suitably warned! You are already part of the data republic, and you (and all of us) need to ensure that our data fall in the right hands. Everything you click, buy, swipe, try, sell, drive, or fly is a data point. But who owns the data? At this point, not you! You do not even have access to most of it. The next best empire of our planet is one who owns and controls the world's best dataset. If you consume or create data, if you are a citizen of the data republic (willingly or grudgingly), and if you are interested in making a decision or finding the truth through data-driven analysis, this book is for you. A group of experts, academics, data science researchers, and industry practitioners gathered to write this manifesto about data democracy. - The future of the data republic, life within a data democracy, and our digital freedoms - An in-depth analysis of open science, open data, open source software, and their future challenges - A comprehensive review of data democracy's implications within domains such as: healthcare, space exploration, earth sciences, business, and psychology - The democratization of Artificial Intelligence (AI), and data issues such as: Bias, imbalance, context, and knowledge extraction - A systematic review of AI methods applied to software engineering problems
New challenges have arisen for the construction of contemporary AI-based systems as a result of recent developments in artificial intelligence (AI), in particular machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL), and their incorporation into software-based systems utilized in all sectors of the economy. These systems place a heavy reliance on data, are constantly evolving and bettering themselves, and display a degree of intrinsic nondeterminism. As a consequence, their behavior displays a degree of uncertainty that is universally acknowledged. As a result of these characteristics, the field of software engineering has to devise adaptable and innovative approaches to quality assurance (QA) that are capable of both constructive and in-depth analysis. This is essential in order to guarantee the product's high quality throughout the whole development process as well as while it is being put to use in actual settings. On the other hand, as Borg has pointed out, the concept of "quality" in AI-based systems does not yet have a definitive definition at this time. As was noted before, the terminology that is utilized in the field of artificial intelligence and software engineering is distinct from one another. When developing AI-based systems, the knowledge and experiences of a wide variety of organizations are combined and utilized in the construction process. While this does lead to new and creative ways, exciting breakthroughs, and a major advancement in what can be done with current AI-based systems, it also encourages the babel of language, concepts, perceptions, and underlying assumptions and principles. While this does lead to new and creative methods, exciting breakthroughs, and a substantial advancement in what can be done with current AI-based systems, this does lead to new and creative approaches. While this does result in novel and creative methods, exciting discoveries, and a significant leap forward in terms of what can be accomplished with contemporary AI-based systems, it does so in spite of the fact that. For instance, in the field of machine learning (ML), the term "regression" may be used to refer to regression models or regression analysis, but in the field of software engineering (SE), the term "regression" is used to refer to regression testing. However, in the context of machine learning (ML), the term "testing" refers to the evaluation of performance characteristics (such as accuracy) of a trained model using a holdout validation dataset. In the context of software engineering (SE), "testing" is described as the activity of executing the system in order to uncover errors. As a consequence of this, there is an increasing amount of confusion, as well as the potential of solutions that are in contradiction with one another, about how to approach quality assurance for AI-based systems and how to deal with the challenges that are associated with it. This is because of the fact that there are a growing number of solutions that are based on AI. Although the authors of this study begin their investigation from the perspective of software engineering, their ultimate goal is to include and talk about a wide variety of different points of view, all of which will eventually come together to provide a multi-dimensional picture of quality assurance for AI-based systems. While the authors of this study begin their investigation from the perspective of software engineering, their ultimate goal is to include and talk about a wide variety of different points of view. In the first part of this study project, our primary focus is on defining the terminologies related with artificial intelligence quality assurance. In the following section, Section 3, we will discuss the challenges that are involved with QA for AI. In the last part of the inquiry, we will summarize what we found and form our conclusions.
