Software project effort estimation with voting rules

Decision Support Systems

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 895-901

  Koch, Stefan ^a   Mitlöhner, Johann ^b  

^a BOGAZICI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Austria)

Author keywords

Cost estimation; Evolutionary computing; Genetic algorithms; Product metrics; Social choice

Indexed keywords

DECISION THEORY; GENETIC ALGORITHMS;

AGGREGATE RANKINGS; COLLECTIVE PREFERENCES; COST ESTIMATION; DATA SETS; EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTING; INPUT DATUM; NEW PROJECTS; NUMERIC VALUES; PRODUCT METRICS; SOCIAL CHOICE; SOFTWARE PROJECTS; VOTING RULES;

ESTIMATION;

EID: 61349190350     PISSN: 01679236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dss.2008.12.002     Document Type: Article

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