Handling imprecision and uncertainty in software development effort prediction: A type-2 fuzzy logic based framework

Information and Software Technology

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 640-654

  Ahmed, Moataz A ^a   Muzaffar, Zeeshan ^b  

^a LEROS Technologies Corporation   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

COCOMO; Effort prediction; Imprecision; Type 2 fuzzy logic; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

FORECASTING; FUZZY SETS; FUZZY SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

COCOMO; EFFORT PREDICTION; IMPRECISION; TYPE-2 FUZZY LOGIC; UNCERTAINTY;

FUZZY LOGIC;

EID: 57849099133     PISSN: 09505849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.infsof.2008.09.004     Document Type: Article

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