An association rule mining method for estimating the impact of project management policies on software quality, development time and effort

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 522-529

  Moreno García, María N ^a   Román, Isabel Ramos ^b   García Peñalvo, Francisco J ^a   Bonilla, Miguel Toro ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Association rules; Data mining; Project management; Simulation; Software estimation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATA MINING; DECISION MAKING; PROFITABILITY; PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

DISCRETIZING CONTINUOUS DATA; MANAGEMENT POLICY FACTORS; PROJECT ATTRIBUTES; SOFTWARE ESTIMATION;

ASSOCIATION RULES;

EID: 34248592216     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2006.09.022     Document Type: Article

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