Web cost estimation and productivity benchmarking

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5413, Issue , 2009, Pages 194-222

  Mendes, Emilia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Bayesian networks; Case based reasoning; Classification and regression trees; Effort accuracy; Multivariate Regression; Web cost estimation; Web productivity benchmarking; Web productivity measurement

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION AND REGRESSION TREES; EFFORT ACCURACY; MULTIVARIATE REGRESSION; WEB COST ESTIMATION; WEB PRODUCTIVITY BENCHMARKING; WEB PRODUCTIVITY MEASUREMENT;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; BENCHMARKING; CASE BASED REASONING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COSTS; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER NETWORKS; ESTIMATION; INFERENCE ENGINES; INTELLIGENT NETWORKS; PRODUCTIVITY; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPEECH ANALYSIS;

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS;

EID: 67249144449     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-95888-8_8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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