Effort estimation: How valuable is it for a web company to use a cross-company data set, compared to using its own single-company data set?

16th International World Wide Web Conference, WWW2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 963-972

  Mendes, Emilia ^a   Di Martino, Sergio ^b   Ferrucci, Filomena ^b   Gravino, Carmine ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALERNO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Case based reasoning; Cost estimation; Cross company effort model; Effort estimation; Single company effort model; Stepwise regression; Web applications; Web projects

Indexed keywords

DATA STRUCTURES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION;

CASE-BASED REASONING; CROSS-COMPANY EFFORT MODELS; EFFORT ESTIMATION; SINGLE-COMPANY EFFORT MODELS; STEPWISE REGRESSION; WEB APPLICATIONS; WEB PROJECTS;

WEB SERVICES;

EID: 35348880970     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1242572.1242702     Document Type: Conference Paper

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