A study of genetic algorithm for project selection for analogy based software cost estimation

IEEM 2007: 2007 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1256-1260

  Li, Y F ^a   Xie, M ^a   Goh, T N ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Analogy based estimation; Genetic algorithm; Project selection; Software cost estimation

Indexed keywords

CASE BASED REASONING; COST FUNCTIONS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ANALOGY BASED ESTIMATION (ABE); LEARNING TECHNIQUES; PROJECT SELECTION; SOFTWARE COST ESTIMATION;

SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 40649116452     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEEM.2007.4419393     Document Type: Conference Paper

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