A study of analogy based sampling for interval based cost estimation for software project management

Proceedings of the 4th IEEE International Conference on Management of Innovation and Technology, ICMIT

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 281-286

  Li, Y F ^a   Xie, M ^a   Goh, T N ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Analogy based estimation; Interval estimation; Software cost estimation; Software project management

Indexed keywords

COSTS; FORECASTING; INNOVATION; MANAGEMENT; PLANNING; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ACCURATE ESTIMATIONS; ANALOGY BASED ESTIMATION; COST ESTIMATIONS; ESTIMATION PROCESSES; INTERVAL ESTIMATION; INTERVAL ESTIMATIONS; INTERVAL PREDICTIONS; SOFTWARE COST ESTIMATION; SOFTWARE COST ESTIMATIONS; SOFTWARE PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SOFTWARE PROJECT MANAGEMENTS; SOFTWARE PROJECTS;

PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

EID: 56749155961     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICMIT.2008.4654377     Document Type: Conference Paper

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