Solar radiation is the Earth's primary source of energy and has an important role in the
surface radiation balance, hydrological cycles, vegetation photosynthesis, and weather and …

Accurate software development effort estimation is crucial to efficient planning of software
projects. Due to complex nature of software projects, development effort estimation has …

Context Due to the complex nature of software development process, traditional parametric
models and statistical methods often appear to be inadequate to model the increasingly …

The software developers and researchers have been facing difficulties regarding software
development effort estimation (SDEE) since 1960s. Both overestimation and …

Software engineering predictive modeling involves construction of models, with the help of
software metrics, for estimating quality attributes. Recently, the use of search-based …

Being able to predict software quality is essential, but also it pose significant challenges in
software engineering. Historical software project datasets are often being utilized together …

Analogy-Based Estimation (ABE) is one of the promising estimation models used for
predicting the software development effort. Researchers proposed different variants of the …

In this paper, we present a model for software effort (person-month) estimation based on
three levels Bayesian network and 15 components of COCOMO and software size. The …

Several feature weight optimization techniques have been proposed for similarity functions
in analogy-based estimation (ABE); however, no consensus regarding the method and …

Software effort estimation (SEE) is the process of forecasting the effort required to develop a
new software system, which is critical to the success of software project management and …