Applying moving windows to software effort estimation

2009 3rd International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement, ESEM 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 111-122

  Lokan, Chris ^a   Mendes, Emilia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA SETS; ESTIMATING SOFTWARE; MOVING WINDOW; ONE-FACTOR; SOFTWARE EFFORT ESTIMATION; TRAINING DATA; WINDOW SIZE;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; ESTIMATION; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING;

WINDOWS;

EID: 72449121808     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ESEM.2009.5316019     Document Type: Conference Paper

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