This paper aims to provide a basis for the improvement of software-estimation research
through a systematic review of previous work. The review identifies 304 software cost …

Context Software effort estimation (SEE) is most crucial activity in the field of software
engineering. Vast research has been conducted in SEE resulting into a tremendous …

Software cost models and effort estimates help project managers allocate resources, control
costs and schedule and improve current practices, leading to projects finished on time and …

There has been a great deal of discussion about firms moving away from transactions
towards building long-term relationships with key customers. This is especially true in …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to classify the most important metrics proposed for
web information systems, with the aim of offering the user a global vision of the state of the …

Not everything that counts can be counted. Not everything that is counted counts. ņAlbert
Einstein This is a book about software measurement from the practitioner's point of view and …

Multi-core platforms represent the answer of the industry to the increasing demand for
computational capabilities. From a real-time perspective, however, the inherent sharing of …

This paper's aim is to bring light to this issue by identifying size metrics and cost drivers for
early Web cost estimation based on current practices of several Web Companies worldwide …

Cost estimation is one of the most important but most difficult tasks in software project
management. Many methods have been proposed for software cost estimation. Analogy …

Several studies have compared the prediction accuracy of different types of techniques with
emphasis placed on linear and stepwise regressions, and case-based reasoning (CBR). We …