Web effort estimation: The value of cross-company data set compared to single-company data set

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 29-38

  Ferrucci, Filomena ^a   Sarro, Federica ^b   Mendes, Emilia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALERNO   (Italy)

^b ZAYED UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

Case based reasoning; Cost estimation; Cross company effort model; Effort estimation; Filtering mechanism; Single company effort model; Stepwise regression; Web projects

Indexed keywords

COST ESTIMATIONS; EFFORT ESTIMATION; FILTERING MECHANISM; STEPWISE REGRESSION; WEB PROJECTS;

ESTIMATION; FORECASTING; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

INDUSTRY;

EID: 84867703659     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2365324.2365330     Document Type: Conference Paper

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