A comparison of techniques for web effort estimation

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

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 334-343

  Mendes, Emilia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; CASE BASED REASONING; FOOD PROCESSING; FORECASTING; INFERENCE ENGINES; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; TECHNOLOGY;

CLASSIFICATION AND REGRESSION TREES; DATA SETS; EFFORT ESTIMATES; EFFORT ESTIMATION; EMPIRICAL SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM; PREDICTION ACCURACY; STEPWISE REGRESSION; WEB PROJECTS;

ESTIMATION;

EID: 47949121581     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ESEM.2007.4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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