Effort prediction in iterative software development processes - incremental versus global prediction models

Proceedings - 1st International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement, ESEM 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 344-353

  Abrahamsson, Pekka ^a,b   Moser, Raimund ^b,c   Pedrycz, Witold ^d,e   Sillitti, Alberto ^b,c   Succi, Giancarlo ^b,c  

^a VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

^b Free University of Bolzano Bozen ^*  (Italy)

^c FREE UNIVERSITY OF BOZEN BOLZANO   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^e Civil/Electrical Engineering   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; ESTIMATION; FOOD PROCESSING; FORECASTING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEURAL NETWORKS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; TECHNOLOGY; WINDOWS OPERATING SYSTEM;

CASE STUDIES; DEVELOPMENT METHODOLOGIES; EFFORT ESTIMATION; EMPIRICAL SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; ESTIMATION TECHNIQUES; EXTREME PROGRAMMING; HISTORIC DATA; INDUSTRIAL PROJECTS; INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM; ITERATIVE DEVELOPMENT; NEW PROJECTS; PREDICTION METHODS; PREDICTION MODELING; REGRESSION MODELLING; SOFTWARE COMPANIES; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT PROCESSES;

ITERATIVE METHODS;

EID: 47949083731     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ESEM.2007.40     Document Type: Conference Paper

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