A soft computing framework for software effort estimation

Soft Computing

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 170-177

  Huang, Xishi ^a   Ho, Danny ^b   Ren, Jing ^a   Capretz, Luiz F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b Motorola Canada Ltd   (Canada)

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EID: 30344459697     PISSN: 14327643     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00500-004-0442-z     Document Type: Article

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