Towards an early software estimation using log-linear regression and a multilayer perceptron model

Journal of Systems and Software

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 144-160

  Nassif, Ali Bou ^a   Ho, Danny ^b   Capretz, Luiz Fernando ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b NFA ESTIMATION INC   (Canada)

Author keywords

Log linear regression model; Multilayer perceptron; Software effort estimation; Use case points

Indexed keywords

FUZZY LOGIC APPROACH; MLP MODEL; MULTI LAYER PERCEPTRON; MULTILAYER PERCEPTRON NEURAL NETWORKS; PRODUCTIVITY FACTORS; REGRESSION MODEL; SOFTWARE EFFORT; SOFTWARE EFFORT ESTIMATION; SOFTWARE ESTIMATION; SOFTWARE LIFE CYCLES; SOFTWARE SIZE; USE CASE DIAGRAM; USE CASE POINTS;

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; ESTIMATION; PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

LINEAR REGRESSION;

EID: 84868662770     PISSN: 01641212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2012.07.050     Document Type: Article

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