On the prediction of the evolution of libre software projects

IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance, ICSM

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 405-414

  Herraiz, Israel ^a   Gonzalez Barahona, Jesus M ^a   Robles, Gregorio ^a   German, Daniel M ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD REY JUAN CARLOS   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION; FOOD PROCESSING; FORECASTING; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; MAINTENANCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

COMPLEX BEHAVIOR; COMPLEX PATTERNING; EVOLUTION (CO); HIERARCHICAL STRUCTURING; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; OPEN SOURCES; REGRESSION MODELLING; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; SOFTWARE PROJECTS; SOURCE CODING; TIME SERIES;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE;

EID: 47349085290     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSM.2007.4362653     Document Type: Conference Paper

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