Cost estimation of web applications through knowledge elicitation

Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing

Volumn 102 LNBIP, Issue , 2012, Pages 315-329

  Mendes, Emilia ^a  

^a ZAYED UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

Case studies; Expert based effort models; Knowledge elicitation; Web effort estimation; Web engineering

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; MODELS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

COST ESTIMATIONS; DOMAIN EXPERTS; EFFORT ESTIMATION; EFFORT ESTIMATION MODEL; NEW ZEALAND; TACIT KNOWLEDGE; TWO DOMAINS; WEB APPLICATION; WEB ENGINEERING; WEB PROJECTS;

INDUSTRY;

EID: 84861658818     PISSN: 18651348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-29958-2_21     Document Type: Conference Paper

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