Accurate estimates without local data?

Software Process Improvement and Practice

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 213-225

  Menzies, Tim ^a   Williams, Steve ^a   Elrawas, Oussama ^a   Baker, Daniel ^a   Boehm, Barry ^b   Hihn, Jairus ^c   Lum, Karen ^c   Madachy, Ray ^d  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c JPL   (United States)

^d NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

AI; Decision making; Model based project management; Search; Software engineering

Indexed keywords

AI; DATA COLLECTION; HISTORICAL DATA; LOCAL DATA; MODEL-BASED PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SEARCH; SOFTWARE PROJECT;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; FORECASTING; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; TUNING;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 68349125859     PISSN: 10774866     EISSN: 10991670     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/spip.414     Document Type: Article

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