A new calibration for Function Point complexity weights

Information and Software Technology

Volumn 50, Issue 7-8, 2008, Pages 670-683

  Xia, Wei ^a   Capretz, Luiz Fernando ^b   Ho, Danny ^c   Ahmed, Faheem ^d  

^a IT Department   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^c NFA ESTIMATION INC   (Canada)

^d UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

Function Point; Function point analysis; Fuzzy logic; Neural network; Software size estimation

Indexed keywords

COST ACCOUNTING; FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS; FUZZY LOGIC; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEURAL NETWORKS; STANDARDIZATION;

COST ESTIMATION; FUNCTION POINT ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE INDUSTRY; SOFTWARE SIZE ESTIMATION; SPECIFIC SOFTWARE APPLICATION;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 42649134811     PISSN: 09505849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.infsof.2007.07.004     Document Type: Article

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