Software Cost Estimation: A Review of Models, Process, and Practice

Advances in Computers

Volumn 44, Issue C, 1997, Pages 59-125

  Walkerden, Fiona ^a   Jeffery, Ross ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

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EID: 21744448782     PISSN: 00652458     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0065-2458(08)60337-X     Document Type: Chapter

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