Feature subset selection for software cost modelling and estimation

Engineering Intelligent Systems

Volumn 18, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 233-246

  Papatheocharous, Efi ^a   Papadopoulos, Harris ^b   Andreou, Andreas S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

^b FREDERICK UNIVERSITY   (Cyprus)

^c CYPRUS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

Feature subset selection; Software cost modelling and estimation

Indexed keywords

COST DRIVERS; COST ESTIMATIONS; DATA SETS; EMPIRICAL VALUES; FEATURE SELECTION METHODS; FEATURE SUBSET SELECTION; FITTING ERROR; MODELLING TECHNIQUES; PRE-PROCESSING STEP; PROJECT DATABASE; SOFTWARE COST; SOFTWARE COST MODELS; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT EFFORT; SUBSET SELECTION;

COST REDUCTION; ESTIMATION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; SET THEORY; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

COST ESTIMATING;

EID: 84863915960     PISSN: 14728915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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