Using Tabu search to estimate software development effort

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5891 LNCS, Issue , 2009, Pages 307-320

  Ferrucci, Filomena ^a   Gravino, Carmine ^a   Oliveto, Rocco ^a   Sarro, Federica ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALERNO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Effort estimation; Empirical analysis; Search based approaches; Tabu search

Indexed keywords

DATA SETS; EFFORT ESTIMATION; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION TECHNIQUES; META-HEURISTIC APPROACH; OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; OPTIMIZATION TECHNIQUES; SEARCH-BASED; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT EFFORT;

ESTIMATION; GENETIC PROGRAMMING; HEURISTIC METHODS; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

TABU SEARCH;

EID: 78650643424     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-05415-0_22     Document Type: Conference Paper

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