A new fuzzy clustering based method to increase the accuracy of software development effort estimation

World Applied Sciences Journal

Volumn 14, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1265-1275

  Vahid Khatibi, B ^a   Jawawi, Dayang N A ^a   Hashim, Siti Zaiton Mohd ^a   Khatibi, Elham ^b  

^a UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^b ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Analogy; Effort estimation; Fuzzy clustering; Irrelevant data; Neural network

Indexed keywords

EID: 82755193013     PISSN: 18184952     EISSN: 19916426     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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