Estimating software development effort with case-based reasoning

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 1266, Issue , 1997, Pages 13-22

  Finnie, G R ^a   Wittig, G E ^a   Desharnais, J M ^b  

^a BOND UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Software Eng Lab in Appl Metrics   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

CASE-BASED REASONING APPROACHES; ESTIMATING SOFTWARE; HUMAN EXPERT; OVERALL QUALITY; REGRESSION MODEL; REGRESSION-BASED MODEL; SOFTWARE ESTIMATION; SOFTWARE PROJECT;

CASE BASED REASONING;

EID: 33845275496     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-63233-6_474     Document Type: Conference Paper

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