On the sensitivity of COCOMO II software cost estimation model

Proceedings - International Software Metrics Symposium

Volumn 2002-January, Issue , 2002, Pages 13-20

  Musilek, P ^a   Pedrycz, W ^a   Sun, Nan ^a   Succi, G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b FREE UNIVERSITY OF BOZEN BOLZANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Computer science; Costs; Electrical capacitance tomography; Performance evaluation; Programming; Resource management; Sensitivity analysis; Software systems; Sun; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; COMPUTER SCIENCE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTER SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COSTS; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE TOMOGRAPHY; ESTIMATION; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING; MONTE CARLO METHODS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK PERCEPTION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SUN; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ELECTRICAL CAPACITANCE TOMOGRAPHY; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; UNCERTAINTY;

COST ESTIMATING;

EID: 84948472509     PISSN: 15301435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/METRIC.2002.1011321     Document Type: Conference Paper

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