Do Adaptation Rules Improve Web Cost Estimation?

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Hypertext

Volumn 14, Issue , 2003, Pages 174-183

  Mendes, Emilia ^a   Mosley, Nile ^b   Counsell, Steve ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b Okki Software   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Case based reasoning; Prediction models; Web effort prediction; Web hypermedia; Web hypermedia metrics

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; HYPERMEDIA SYSTEMS; STATISTICAL METHODS; COSTS; ERROR ANALYSIS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PRODUCTIVITY; PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

CASE-BASED REASONING; PREDICTION MODELS; WEB ENGINEERING; WEB HYPERMEDIA METRICS; WEB EFFORT PREDICTION; WEB HYPERMEDIA; WEB HYPERMEDIA METRICES;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 1142305197     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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