Integrating function point project information for improving the accuracy of effort estimation

Proceedings - The 2nd International Conference on Advanced Engineering Computing and Applications in Sciences, ADVCOMP 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 193-198

  Ahmed, Faheem ^a   Bouktif, Salah ^a   Serhani, Adel ^a   Khalil, Issa ^a  

^a UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL QUESTIONS; DATA SETS; EFFORT ESTIMATION; ENGINEERING COMMUNITY; ESTIMATION MODELS; ESTIMATION PROCESS; FUNCTION POINT; INFORMATION REUSE; INTERNATIONAL SOFTWARE BENCHMARKING STANDARDS GROUP; PROJECT COST ESTIMATION; PROJECT INFORMATIONS; SOFTWARE COST ESTIMATIONS; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; SOFTWARE ESTIMATION; SOFTWARE ORGANIZATION; SOFTWARE PROJECT; STRUCTURAL ELEMENTS; WEIGHT VALUES;

COMPUTER AIDED ENGINEERING; ESTIMATION; INTEGRATION; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; STANDARDIZATION;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE REUSABILITY;

EID: 67650098211     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ADVCOMP.2008.42     Document Type: Conference Paper

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