Test case selection and prioritization are well studied and understood regression testing techniques. Equally, test case generation is an active research area. Yet the combination of these techniques remains largely unexplored. This paper proposes to use a multi objective approach to combine a test case generation technique, the Classification Tree Method, with a test case selection and priorit...

We address the problem of computing an optimal value function for Markov decision processes. Since finding this function quickly and accurately requires substantial computation effort, techniques that accelerate fundamental algorithms have been a main focus of research. Among them prioritization solvers suggest solutions to the problem of ordering backup operations. Prioritization techniques fo...

We investigated how power dynamics in close relationships influence the tendency to devote resources to the pursuit of goals valued by relationship partners, hypothesizing that low (vs. high) power in relationships would lead individuals to center their individual goal pursuit around the goals of their partners. We study 2 related phenomena: partner goal prioritization, whereby individuals purs...

Semantic similarity measures have been used successfully and extensively in the biomedical research with various applications. As the biomedical ontologies, which form the main ground for most of the similarity measures, are growing and progressing towards more completeness and higher accuracy, the results and outcomes of these semantic similarity measures become more acceptable and more reliab...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS The Cochrane Tobacco Addiction Group (TAG) conducts systematic reviews of the evidence for tobacco cessation and prevention interventions. In 2016 TAG conducted a priority-setting, stakeholder engagement project to identify where further research is needed in the areas of tobacco control and smoking cessation. DESIGN The project comprised two surveys and a workshop. A rang...

We show how to transform any set of priori­ tized propositional defaults into an equivalent set of parallel (i.e. , unprioritized) defaults, in circumscription. We give an algorithm to im­ plement the transform. We show how to use the transform algorithm as a generator of a whole family of inferencing algorithms for cir­ cumscription. The method is to employ the transform algorithm as a front e...

In order to maximize the use of results from high-throughput experimental studies, e.g. GWAS, for identification and diagnostics of new disease-associated genes, it is important to have properly analyzed and benchmarked gene prioritization tools. While prospective benchmarks are underpowered to provide statistically significant results in their attempt to differentiate the performance of gene p...

Test case prioritization (TCP) techniques have been proven to be beneficial for improving testing activities. Prioritized test suites are found using different techniques of prioritization. While code coverage based prioritization techniques are found to be used by most scholars, test case prioritization based on UML behavioral models has not been given much attention so far. We propose a novel...