DEA evaluation of a Y2K software retrofit program

IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 279-287

  Yang, Zijiang ^a   Paradi, Joseph C ^b  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENTURY YEAR PROBLEM; COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; DATA REDUCTION; EFFICIENCY; LINEAR PROGRAMMING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERSONNEL; PRODUCTIVITY;

DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; RATIO BASED RATING SYSTEM; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT PRODUCTIVITY; SOFTWARE PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 3943051391     PISSN: 00189391     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TEM.2004.830843     Document Type: Article

References (20)

1. A. J. Albrecht, "Measuring application development productivity," in Proc. IBM Applications Development Symp., Monterey, CA, 1979, pp. 83-92.
2. A. J. Albrecht and J. E. Gaffney, "Software functions, source lines of code, and development effort prediction: A software science validation," IEEE Trans. Software Eng. SE-9, vol. SE-6, pp. 639-648, 1983.
3. M. Asmild, J. C. Paradi, and A. Kulkarni, "Software development productivity," , 2004, submitted for publication.
4. R. D. Banker, A. Charnes, and W. W. Cooper, "Models for estimating technical and scale efficiencies in DEA," Manage. Sci., vol. 30, no. 9, pp. 1078-1092, 1984.
5. R. D. Banker and R. Morey, "The use of categorical variables in data envelopment analysis," Manage. Sci., vol. 32, no. 12, pp. 1963-1627, 1986.
6. R. D. Banker and C. F. Kemerer, "Scale economies in new software development," IEEE Trans. Software Eng., vol. 15, pp. 1199-1205, Oct. 1989.
7. R. D. Banker, S. M. Datar, and C. F. Kemerer, "A model to evaluate variables impacting the productivity of software maintenance projects," Manage. Sci., vol. 37, no. 1, pp. 1-18, 1991.
8. B. W. Boehm, Software Engineering Economics. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1981.
9. A. Charnes, W. W. Cooper, and E. Rhodes, "Measuring the efficiency of decision making units," Eur. J. Oper. Res., vol. 2, no. 6, pp. 429-444, 1978.
10. W. W. Cooper, L. M. Seiford, and K. Tone, Data Envelopment analysis - A comprehensive Text with Models, Applications, References and DEA-Solver Software. Norwell, MA: Kluwer, 2000.
11. J. Elam, "Evaluating the efficiency of IS organizations using data envelopment analysis," in Proc. Int. Function Points Users Group 1990 Fall Conf., Oct. 1991.
12. N. E. Fenton, "Software measurement: A necessary scientific basis," IEEE Trans. Software Eng., vol. 20, pp. 199-206, Mar. 1994.
13. N. Gorla and R. Ramakrishnan, "Effect of software structure attributes on software development productivity," J. Syst. Software, vol. 36, no. 2, pp. 191-199, 1997.
14. M. Jorgensen, U. Indahl, and D. Sjoberg, "Software effort estimation by analogy and "regression toward the mean"," J. Syst. Software, vol. 68, no. 3, pp. 253-262, 2003.
15. C. F. Kemerer, "Reliability of function points measurements: A field experiment," in Commun. ACM, vol. 36, 1993, pp. 85-97.
16. G. C. Low and D. R. Jeffery, "Function points in the estimation and evaluation of the software process," IEEE Trans. Software Eng., vol. 16, pp. 81-84, Jan. 1990.
17. O. Mizuno, T. Kikuno, K. Inagaki, Y. Takagi, and K. Sakamoto; "Statistical analysis of deviation of actual cost from estimated cost using actual project data," Inform. Software Technol., vol. 42, no. 7, pp. 465-473, 2000.
18. J. C. Paradi, D. N. Reese, and D. Rosen, "Applications of DEA to measure the efficiency of software production at two large canadians banks," Ann. Operations Res., vol. 73, pp. 91-115, 1997.
19. J. T. Pastor, J. L. Ruiz, and I. Sirvent, "A statistical test for detecting influential observations in DEA," Eur. J. Oper. Res., vol. 115, no. 3, pp. 542-554, 1999.
20. L. H. Putnam and W. Myers, Measures for Excellence. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1992.