Aggregating expert-driven causal maps for web effort estimation

Communications in Computer and Information Science

Volumn 117 CCIS, Issue , 2010, Pages 264-282

  Baker, Simon ^a   Mendes, Emilia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

causal maps; map aggregation; Web effort estimation; Web effort prediction

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION PROCESS; CAUSAL MAPS; CAUSAL RELATIONS; CAUSAL RELATIONSHIPS; COMPLEX DOMAINS; DOMAIN EXPERTS; EFFORT ESTIMATION; FUNDAMENTAL FACTORS; MAPPING SCHEME; WEB EFFORT PREDICTION;

AGGLOMERATION; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

ESTIMATION;

EID: 78651071886     PISSN: 18650929     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-17578-7_27     Document Type: Conference Paper

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