On the use of weighted sums in the definition of measures

Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 8-15

  Morasca, Sandro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INSUBRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

estimation models; external software attributes; internal software attributes; software measurement; weighted sums

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; EMPIRICAL VALIDATION; ESTIMATION MODELS; QUALITY MODELS; SOFTWARE MEASUREMENT; WEIGHTED SUM;

ESTIMATION; MODELS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 77954706303     PISSN: 02705257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1809223.1809225     Document Type: Conference Paper

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