Combination of software development effort prediction intervals: Why, when and how?

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn 27, Issue , 2002, Pages 425-428

  Jørgensen, Magne ^a   Moløkken, Kjetil ^b  

^a SIMULA RESEARCH LABORATORY   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

combination; group estimates; uncertainty of effort predictions

Indexed keywords

COMBINATION STRATEGIES; CONFIDENCE LEVELS; EFFORT PREDICTION; EMPIRICAL RESULTS; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; GROUP DISCUSSIONS; GROUP PROCESS; HIGH CONFIDENCE; HIT RATE; INDIVIDUAL PREDICTION; MAXIMUM VALUES; MINIMUM VALUE; PREDICTION INTERVAL; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT EFFORT;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING; SOFTWARE DESIGN; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

FORECASTING;

EID: 77953774704     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/568760.568833     Document Type: Conference Paper

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