Search-Based approaches for software development effort estimation

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 38-43

  Sarro, Federica ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALERNO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Empirical study; Search Based Software Engineering; Software development effort estimation

Indexed keywords

EFFORT ESTIMATION; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; EMPIRICAL ASSESSMENT; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; ESTIMATION MODELS; LARGE SPACES; META HEURISTICS; NEAR-OPTIMAL SOLUTIONS; SEARCH-BASED; SEARCH-BASED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT EFFORT;

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 84865618736     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2181101.2181111     Document Type: Conference Paper

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