Decision support analysis for software effort estimation by analogy

Proceedings - ICSE 2007 Workshops: Third International Workshop on Predictor Models in Software Engineering, PROMISE'07

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 6-15

  Li, Jingzhou ^a   Ruhe, Guenther ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTEXT SENSITIVE GRAMMARS; DECISION MAKING; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

DECISION POINTS; EFFORT ESTIMATION BY ANALOGY (EBA); SOFTWARE EFFORT ESTIMATION;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS;

EID: 36949037149     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PROMISE.2007.5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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