Towards adaptive soft computing based software effort prediction

Annual Conference of the North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society - NAFIPS

Volumn 1, Issue , 2004, Pages 16-21

  Saliu, Moshood Omolade ^a   Ahmed, Moataz ^b   AlGhamdi, Jarallah ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

COCOMO; Effort prediction; Fuzzy logic; Soft computing

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATA ACQUISITION; ESTIMATION; EXPERT SYSTEMS; FUZZY SETS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; VIRTUAL REALITY;

COCOMO; EFFORT PREDICTION; SOFT COMPUTING;

ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS;

EID: 4544348609     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/nafips.2004.1336241     Document Type: Conference Paper

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