Experience With the Accuracy of Software Maintenance Task Effort Prediction Models

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 1995, Pages 674-681

  Jørgensen, Magne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Cost models; neural network; pattern recognition; prediction models; regression; software maintenance; software measurement

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEURAL NETWORKS; OPTIMIZATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE TASK EFFORT PREDICTION MODELS; SOFTWARE MEASUREMENT;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0029357292     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/32.403791     Document Type: Article

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