Publications

Journal (Published)

E. Kocaguneli, T. Menzies, E. Mendes, “Transfer Learning in Effort Estimation”, Empirical Software Engineering Journal, vol. 20, no. 3, pp. 813-843, 2015.

E. Kocaguneli, T. Menzies, “Software Effort Models Should be Assessed via Leave-one-out Validation”, Journal of Systems and Software, vol. 86, no. 7, pp. 1879-1890, 2013

E. Kocaguneli, T. Menzies, J. Keung, “Kernel Methods for Software Effort Estimation”, Empirical Software Engineering Journal, vol. 18, no. 1, pp. 1-24, 2013.

E. Kocaguneli, T. Menzies, J. Keung, D. Cok, R. Madachy, "Active Learning and Effort Estimation: Finding the Essential Content of Software Effort Estimation Data", IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, pre-prints, 2013.


E. Kocaguneli, T. Menzies, A. Bener, J. Keung, “Exploiting the Essential Assumptions of Analogy-based Effort Estimation”, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, vol. 38, no.2, pp. 425-438, March-April 2012.


E. Kocaguneli, T. Menzies, J. Keung, “On the Value of Ensemble Effort Estimation”, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, vol. 38, no. 6, pp. 1403-1416, 2012.


J. Keung, E. Kocaguneli, T. Menzies, "Finding Conclusion Stability for Selecting the Best Effort Predictor in Software Effort Estimation", Automated Software Engineering Journal, 2012.

A. Brady, T. Menzies, E. Kocaguneli, “What Is Enough Quality for Data Repositories?”, Software Quality Professional, 2011.

Conference
H.Lu, E. Kocaguneli, B. Cukic, “Defect Prediction between Software Versions with Active Learning and Dimensionality Reduction”, 2014 IEEE 25th International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE), pp. 312-322

Ekrem Kocaguneli, Thomas Zimmermann, Christian Bird, Nachiappan Nagappan, Tim Menzies, “Distributed development considered harmful?” International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) 2013: 882-890

Tim Menzies, Ekrem Kocaguneli, Fayola Peters, Burak Turhan, Leandro L. Minku, “Data science for software engineering” International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) 2013: 1484-1486

Ekrem Kocaguneli, Bojan Cukic, Tim Menzies, Huihua Lu “Building a second opinion: learning cross-company data” Predictive Models in Software Engineering (PROMISE) 2013: 12:1-12:10

E. Kocaguneli, T. Menzies, “How to Find Relevant Data for Effort Estimation”, International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM) 2011

E. Kocaguneli, B.Caglayan, A. Tosun, A. Bener, “Experiences on Developer Participation and Effort Estimation”, EUROMICRO Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA) 2011

E. Kocaguneli, G. Gay, Y. Yang, T. Menzies, “When to Use Data from Other Projects for Effort Estimation”, International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE) 2010

E. Kocaguneli, A. Tosun, A. Bener, “AI-Based Models for Software Effort Estimation”, 36th EUROMICRO Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA) 2010

E. Kocaguneli, Y. Kultur, A. Bener, “Combining Multiple Learners Induced on Multiple Datasets for Software Effort Prediction”, Proceedings of International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE) 2009.

E. Kocaguneli, A. Tosun, A. Bener, B. Turhan, B. Caglayan, “Prest: An Intelligent Software Metrics Extraction, Analysis and Defect Prediction Tool”, Proceedings of International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE) 2009.

Ayse Tosun, Ayse Bener, Ekrem Kocaguneli, “BITS: Issue Tracking and Project Management Tool in Healthcare Software Development”, Proceedings of International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE) 2009.

A. Bakir, E. Kocaguneli, A. Tosun, A.Bener and B. Turhan “Xiruxe: An Intelligent Fault Tracking Tool”, Proceedings of International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Pattern Recognition (AIPR) 2009.

Y. Kultur, E. Kocaguneli, A. Bener, “Discovering Cost Related Features: Focus on Classification Models”, Poster Paper in Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM) 2009.

E. Kocaguneli, A. Tosun, B. Caglayan, A. Bener, T. Aytac, B. Turhan, “Bulutlarda Akilli Bir Yazilim Olcumleme, Hata Analiz ve Tahmin Araci: Prest”, (in Turkish), 2nd National Symposium on Software Engineering (UYMS) 2009

Y. Kultur, E. Kocaguneli, A. Bener, “Domain Specific Phase by Phase Effort Estimation in Software Projects”, Proceedings of International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences (ISCIS) 2009.