Building a web effort estimation model through knowledge elicitation

ICEIS 2011 - Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems

Volumn 3 ISAS, Issue , 2011, Pages 128-135

  Mendes, Emilia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS (BNS); DOMAIN EXPERTS; EFFORT ESTIMATION; EFFORT ESTIMATION MODEL; EXPERT KNOWLEDGE; NEW ZEALAND; WEB ENGINEERING; WEB PROJECTS;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; MODELS; RESEARCH; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

INDUSTRY;

EID: 84861665647     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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