Cognitive limits of software cost estimation

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

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 117-125

  Valerdi, Ricardo ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; ENGINEERING PRACTITIONERS; ENGINEERING STUDENTS; INCOMPLETE INFORMATION; INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM; LIMITED INFORMATION; SOFTWARE COST ESTIMATIONS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERS; SOFTWARE-INTENSIVE SYSTEMS;

ENGINEERING; EXPERIMENTS; HEURISTIC METHODS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; STUDENTS; TECHNOLOGY;

ESTIMATION;

EID: 47949099831     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ESEM.2007.30     Document Type: Conference Paper

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