Simple software cost analysis: Safe or unsafe?

Proceedings of the 2005 Workshop on Predictor Models in Software Engineering, PROMISE 2005

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages

  Menzies, Tim ^a   Port, Dan ^b   Chen, Zhihao ^c   Hihn, Jairus ^d  

^a Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

COCOMO; Cost estimation; Delta estimation; LSR; M5; Stability

Indexed keywords

CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COSTS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

AUTOMATIC METHOD; COCOMO; COST ESTIMATIONS; NEW PROJECTS; REAL-WORLD; SOFTWARE COST;

COST ESTIMATING;

EID: 84890059856     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1083165.1083170     Document Type: Conference Paper

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