Using genetic programming to improve software effort estimation based on general data sets

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

Volumn 2724, Issue , 2003, Pages 2477-2487

  Lefley, Martin ^a   Shepperd, Martin J ^a  

^a BOURNEMOUTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 35248891530     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-45110-2_151     Document Type: Article

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