Theoretical maximum prediction accuracy for analogy-based software cost estimation

Proceedings - Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference, APSEC

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 495-502

  Keung, Jacky W ^a,b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Software metrics and measurement, Software cost estimation, Analogy, K NN, MMRE

Indexed keywords

ABSOLUTE ACCURACY; COST ESTIMATION MODELS; DATA SETS; HISTORICAL DATA; NOVEL METHODS; PRACTICAL IMPORTANCE; PREDICTION ACCURACY; PREDICTION MODEL; PREDICTION SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE COST ESTIMATIONS; SOFTWARE METRICS AND MEASUREMENT, SOFTWARE COST ESTIMATION, ANALOGY, K-NN, MMRE;

COSTS; ESTIMATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION;

EID: 67650547019     PISSN: 15301362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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