the purpose of this study is to assess the transaction cost of borrowing from non-governmental investment development funds which are established in less than a decade. transaction costs are considered as significant and limiting factors for micro-borrowers in using formal loans. the required data are provided by the investment developing support’s parent company using the stratified random sam...

Context: Software development effort estimates are often inaccurate, and this inaccuracy cause problems for the clients as well as the providers. Consequently, we need more knowledge about the estimation processes, so that we can improve them. Objective: This study investigates how initial judgment-based estimation of work effort in software development affects subsequent, unrelated estimation ...

Background: Many comparative studies have been performed on effort estimation models. Linear regression (LR) and Estimation by Analogy (EbA) were often compared. The past research revealed that those comparative studies reported inconsistent results among performance measures. However, those studies seemed not to reflect actual or desirable study procedure. Aim: We aimed to examine performance ...

1 Draft submitted to ICSM 2002 Abstract Effort estimation is a valuable asset to managers in planning maintenance activities and performing cost/benefits analysis. Early estimates and accurate evaluations permit to significantly reduce project risks and to improve resource scheduling. In this paper we present an approach for an early effort estimation based on the knowledge of a fraction of the...

extensive research has been devoted to economic production quantity (epq) problem. however, little atten-tion has been paid to problems where depreciation cost and process quality cost must be considered, simulta-neously. in this paper, we consider the economic production quantity model of minimizing the annual total cost subject to depreciation cost and process quality cost, where depreciation...