Improve analogy-based software effort estimation using principal components analysis and correlation weighting

Proceedings - Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference, APSEC

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 179-186

  Wen, Jianfeng ^a   Li, Shixian ^a   Tang, Linyan ^b  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Guangdong Industry Technical College   (China)

Author keywords

Analogy; Correlation weighting; Principal components analysis; Software effort estimation

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARK DATASETS; COST OVERRUNS; EFFORT ESTIMATION; EUCLIDEAN DISTANCE; MANPOWER COSTS; NEW PROJECTS; PEARSON CORRELATION COEFFICIENTS; PREDICTION ACCURACY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS ANALYSIS; PROJECT MANAGERS; SIMILARITY MEASURE; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT COSTS; SOFTWARE EFFORT ESTIMATION; SOFTWARE QUALITY;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; CORRELATION METHODS; ESTIMATION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; NASA; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

EID: 76349083127     PISSN: 15301362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/APSEC.2009.40     Document Type: Conference Paper

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