Investigating Tabu search for web effort estimation

Proceedings - 36th EUROMICRO Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications, SEAA 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 350-357

  Ferrucci, F ^a   Gravino, C ^a   Oliveto, R ^a   Sarro, F ^a   Mendes, E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALERNO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA SETS; EFFORT ESTIMATION; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; ESTIMATION TECHNIQUES; META-HEURISTIC APPROACH; OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; WEB APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT;

CASE BASED REASONING; ESTIMATION; HEURISTIC METHODS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; WORLD WIDE WEB;

TABU SEARCH;

EID: 78449268614     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SEAA.2010.59     Document Type: Conference Paper

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