Neural network based models for software effort estimation: a review

VS Dave, K Dutta - Artificial Intelligence Review, 2014 - Springer
Prediction of software development effort is the key task for the effective management of any
software industry. The accuracy and reliability of prediction mechanisms is also important …

Satin bowerbird optimizer: A new optimization algorithm to optimize ANFIS for software development effort estimation

SHS Moosavi, VK Bardsiri - Engineering Applications of Artificial …, 2017 - Elsevier
Accurate software development effort estimation is crucial to efficient planning of software
projects. Due to complex nature of software projects, development effort estimation has …

A study of project selection and feature weighting for analogy based software cost estimation

YF Li, M **e, TN Goh - Journal of systems and software, 2009 - Elsevier
A number of software cost estimation methods have been presented in literature over the
past decades. Analogy based estimation (ABE), which is essentially a case based reasoning …

Cost estimation for cross-organizational ERP projects: research perspectives

M Daneva, R Wieringa - Software Quality Journal, 2008 - Springer
There are many methods for estimating size, effort, schedule and other cost aspects of IS
projects, but only one specifically developed for Enterprise Resource Planning …

A suite of object oriented cognitive complexity metrics

S Misra, A Adewumi, L Fernandez-Sanz… - IEEE …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Object orientation has gained a wide adoption in the software development community. To
this end, different metrics that can be utilized in measuring and improving the quality of …

Increasing the accuracy of software development effort estimation using projects clustering

VK Bardsiri, DNA Jawawi, SZM Hashim, E Khatibi - IET software, 2012 - IET
Software development effort is one of the most important metrics that must be correctly
estimated in software projects. Analogy-based estimation (ABE) and artificial neural …

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

V Khatibi Bardsiri, DNA Jawawi, SZM Hashim… - Empirical Software …, 2014 - Springer
The estimation of software development effort has been centralized mostly on the accuracy
of estimates through dealing with heterogeneous datasets regardless of the fact that the …

Class point approach for software effort estimation using various support vector regression kernel methods

SM Satapathy, SK Rath - Proceedings of the 7th India Software …, 2014 - dl.acm.org
Accurate effort estimation in early stage of software development life cycle is a major
challenge for many software industries. The use of various optimization techniques helps in …

[HTML][HTML] Framework to improve software effort estimation accuracy using novel ensemble rule

SS Ali, J Ren, J Wu - Journal of King Saud University-Computer and …, 2024 - Elsevier
This investigation focuses on refining software effort estimation (SEE) to enhance project
outcomes amidst the rapid evolution of the software industry. Accurate estimation is a …

Conceptual data model-based software size estimation for information systems

HBK Tan, Y Zhao, H Zhang - ACM Transactions on Software …, 2009 - dl.acm.org
Size estimation plays a key role in effort estimation that has a crucial impact on software
projects in the software industry. Some information required by existing software sizing …