An empirical validation of the relationship between the magnitude of relative error and project size

Proceedings - International Software Metrics Symposium

Volumn 2002-January, Issue , 2002, Pages 3-12

  Stensrud, E ^a   Foss, T ^a   Kitchenham, B ^b   Myrtveit, I ^a  

^a BI NORWEGIAN BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Norway)

^b KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Artificial intelligence; Costs; Electrical capacitance tomography; Investments; Measurement uncertainty; Project management; Q measurement; Size measurement; Software engineering

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COST ENGINEERING; COST ESTIMATING; COSTS; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE TOMOGRAPHY; FORECASTING; INVESTMENTS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ACCURACY; ELECTRICAL CAPACITANCE TOMOGRAPHY; MEASUREMENT UNCERTAINTY; Q MEASUREMENTS; SIZE MEASUREMENTS;

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS;

EID: 84930742043     PISSN: 15301435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/METRIC.2002.1011320     Document Type: Conference Paper

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