An empirical study of process-related attributes in segmented software cost-estimation relationships

Journal of Systems and Software

Volumn 79, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 353-361

  Cuadrado Gallego, Juan J ^a   Sicilia, Miguel Angel ^a   Garre, Miguel ^a   Rodríguez, Daniel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Clustering algorithms; EM algorithm; Parametric software effort estimation; Software cost drivers

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATABASE SYSTEMS;

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; EM ALGORITHMS; PARAMETRIC SOFTWARE EFFORT ESTIMATION; SOFTWARE COST DRIVERS;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

EID: 33644665874     PISSN: 01641212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2005.04.040     Document Type: Article

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