Enhancing the cocomo estimation models

IEEE Software

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 45-49

  Hale, Joanne ^a   Parrish, Allen ^b   Dixon, Brandon ^b   Smith, Randy K ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

^b University of Alabama   (United States)

^c JACKSONVILLE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIENT SERVER COMPUTER SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SELECTION AND EVALUATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONCURRENCY CONTROL; LINEARIZATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

COCOMO ESTIMATION MODELS; HIERARCHICAL INPUT PROCESS OUTPUT; TASK ASSIGNMENT METRICS;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0034316505     PISSN: 07407459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/52.895167     Document Type: Article

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