AI tools for software development effort estimation

Proceedings - 1996 International Conference Software Engineering: Education and Practice, SEEP 1996

Volumn , Issue , 1996, Pages 346-353

  Finnie, G R ^a   Wittig, G E ^a  

^a BOND UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASE BASED REASONING; NEURAL NETWORKS;

ACCURATE ESTIMATION; BACK PROPAGATION ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK (BPANN); COMPLEX RELATIONSHIPS; EFFORT ESTIMATION MODEL; ESTIMATING SOFTWARE; HIGH NOISE LEVELS; REGRESSION TECHNIQUES; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT EFFORT;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 85058465671     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SEEP.1996.534020     Document Type: Conference Paper

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