A flexible method to estimate the software development effort based on the classification of projects and localization of comparisons

Empirical Software Engineering

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 857-884

  Khatibi Bardsiri, Vahid ^a   Jawawi, Dayang Norhayati Abang ^a   Hashim, Siti Zaiton Mohd ^a   Khatibi, Elham ^b  

^a UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^b ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

ABE; Clustering; Effort estimation; Localization; PSO

Indexed keywords

PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION (PSO); SOFT COMPUTING;

ABE; CLUSTERING; EFFORT ESTIMATION; LOCALIZATION; PSO;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 84901842485     PISSN: 13823256     EISSN: 15737616     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10664-013-9241-4     Document Type: Article

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