Bayesian network models for Web effort prediction: A comparative study

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 723-737

  Mendes, Emilia ^a   Mosley, Nile ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b MetriQ Limited   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Project management; Software engineering; Web cost estimation; Web engineering

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; CASE BASED REASONING; DATABASE SYSTEMS; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER NETWORKS; FORECASTING; INFERENCE ENGINES; INTELLIGENT NETWORKS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SPEECH ANALYSIS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

CASE-BASED REASONINGS; CAUSAL GRAPHS; COMPARATIVE STUDIES; COMPLEX MODELS; DOMAIN EXPERTS; EFFORT ESTIMATIONS; HYBRID MODELS; POINT ESTIMATES; PROJECT DATUMS; TRAINING SETS; VALIDATION SETS; WEB COST ESTIMATION; WEB EFFORT PREDICTIONS; WEB ENGINEERING; WEB PROJECTS;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

EID: 58049200453     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSE.2008.64     Document Type: Article

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