PERMMA: Enhancing parameter estimation of software reliability growth models: A comparative analysis of metaheuristic optimization algorithms

• Vishal Pradhan ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: vishal.pradhanfma@kiit.ac.in, vishal.iiitmg@gmail.com (VP); sauravmtech2@gmail.com, smallik@hsph.harvard.edu (SM), nagqadir@kku.edu.sa (NA)

  Affiliation School of Applied Sciences, Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology, Odisha, India

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8430-3097

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• Arijit Patra,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliation School of Applied Sciences, Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology, Odisha, India

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• Ankush Jain,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Netaji Subhas University of Technology, Dwarka, New Delhi, India

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• Garima Jain,

  Roles Formal analysis, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Computer Science and Business System, Noida Institute of Engineering and Technology, Greater Noida, India

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1302-9534

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• Ajay Kumar,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Engineering Sciences, ABV-Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management Gwalior, Gwalior, MP, India

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• Joydip Dhar,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Engineering Sciences, ABV-Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management Gwalior, Gwalior, MP, India

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• Anjan Bandyopadhyay,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Computer Science and Engineering, Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology, Odisha, India

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• Saurav Mallik ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

  * E-mail: vishal.pradhanfma@kiit.ac.in, vishal.iiitmg@gmail.com (VP); sauravmtech2@gmail.com, smallik@hsph.harvard.edu (SM), nagqadir@kku.edu.sa (NA)

  Affiliations Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T H Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States of America, Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4107-6784

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• Naim Ahmad ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: vishal.pradhanfma@kiit.ac.in, vishal.iiitmg@gmail.com (VP); sauravmtech2@gmail.com, smallik@hsph.harvard.edu (SM), nagqadir@kku.edu.sa (NA)

  Affiliation College of Computer Science, King Khalid University, Abha, Saudi Arabia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4424-4758

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• Ahmed Said Badawy

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation College of Computer Science, King Khalid University, Abha, Saudi Arabia

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