Software effort estimation by analogy using attribute selection based on rough set analysis

International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-23

  Li, Jingzhou ^a   Ruhe, Guenther ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Attribute weighting; Effort estimation by analogy; Feature selection; Heuristics; Learning; Rough sets

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; HEURISTIC METHODS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; ROUGH SET THEORY;

ATTRIBUTE SELECTION METHODS; ATTRIBUTE WEIGHTING; DATA SETS; EFFORT ESTIMATION BY ANALOGY;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 43949108552     PISSN: 02181940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218194008003532     Document Type: Article

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