Software reliability is considered as a quantifiable metric, which is defined as the probability of a software to operate without failure for a specified period of time in a specific environment. Various software reliability growth models have been proposed to predict the reliability of a software. These models help vendors to predict the behaviour of the software before shipment. The reliability is predicted by estimating the parameters of the software reliability growth models. But the model parameters are generally in nonlinear relationships which creates many problems in finding the optimal parameters using traditional techniques like Maximum Likelihood and least Square Estimation. Various stochastic search algorithms have been introduced which have made the task of parameter estimation, more reliable and computationally easier. Parameter estimation of NHPP based reliability models, using MLE and using an evolutionary search algorithm called Particle Swarm Optimization, has been explored in the paper.
Automatically generating a shorter version of text documents referred to as text summarization. It is an effective method of finding important details from the documents. There is a massive increment in the data worldwide because of rapid growth rate of the internet. It becomes difficult to manually summarize large documents by human beings. Automatic Text Summarization is an approach of NLP which reduces the time and efforts of the human being to produce a summary. There are various approaches to summarize the data. This paper provides a comparative study over the three approaches namely TF-IDF, TextRank, and Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA). The comparison is made by using three different types of datasets like reviews of documents, news articles, legal text, etc. The result shows the best-suited approach for the complexity oriented text inputs. Also, the results are evaluated using ROUGE measures.
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