A study on software effort prediction using machine learning techniques

Communications in Computer and Information Science

Volumn 275, Issue , 2013, Pages 1-15

  Zhang, Wen ^a   Yang, Ye ^a   Wang, Qing ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF SOFTWARE   (China)

Author keywords

BPNN; Effort prediction; K medoids; Machine learning; Missing imputation

Indexed keywords

DECISION TREES; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; NEURAL NETWORKS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SUPERVISED LEARNING; UNSUPERVISED LEARNING;

BACK-PROPAGATION NEURAL NETWORKS; BPNN; EFFORT PREDICTION; K-MEDOIDS; MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES; MISSING IMPUTATION; SOFTWARE EFFORT PREDICTION; SUPERVISED AND UNSUPERVISED LEARNING;

FORECASTING;

EID: 84880481368     PISSN: 18650929     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-32341-6_1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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