Effort estimates through project complexity

Annals of Operations Research

Volumn 186, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 395-406

  Castejón Limas, Manuel ^a   Ordieres Meré, Joaquín ^b   González Marcos, Ana ^c   González Castro, Víctor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEÓN   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LA RIOJA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Data mining; ISBSG; Project management

Indexed keywords

EID: 79958842956     PISSN: 02545330     EISSN: 15729338     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10479-010-0776-0     Document Type: Article

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