A metrics-based software maintenance Effort Model

Proceedings of the European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering, CSMR

Volumn 8, Issue , 2004, Pages 254-258

  Hayes, Jane Huffman ^a   Patel, Sandip C ^b   Zhao, Liming ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b University of Louisville   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MAINTENANCE EFFORT MODEL (AMEFFM0); CONSTRUCTIVE COST MODEL (COCOMO); LINEAR REGRESSION; REGRESSION MODELS;

ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; DATA ACQUISITION; FUNCTIONS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; LINEAR SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PLANNING; PROBLEM SOLVING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SCHEDULING;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 3042735332     PISSN: 15345351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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