Predicting software project effort: A grey relational analysis based method

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 7302-7316

  Song, Qinbao ^a   Shepperd, Martin ^b  

^a XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Effort prediction; Feature subset selection; Grey relational analysis; Outlier detection; Software project estimation

Indexed keywords

EFFORT PREDICTION; FEATURE SUBSET SELECTION; GREY RELATIONAL ANALYSIS; OUTLIER DETECTION; SOFTWARE PROJECT ESTIMATION;

DATA MINING; FORECASTING; INFORMATION THEORY; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; SET THEORY; SOFTWARE DESIGN; SYSTEM THEORY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WORK SIMPLIFICATION;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

EID: 79951581706     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2010.12.005     Document Type: Article

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