Software cost estimation (SCE) remains a complex problem, which continues to attract considerable research at an early stage in the software development process. Researchers have attempted different approaches. Lately, models based on artificial intelligence techniques have been developed. Case base reasoning (CBR) has emerged recently as a promising approach, with comparable accuracy and it is...

Cost estimation for Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) has not been addressed properly in the existing literatures. Most cost estimation approaches published in the literatures are more guidelines than actual practical estimation techniques. On the other hand, traditional software cost estimation techniques don’t fit SOA characteristics properly. In this paper, a phased effort distribution in ...

Software project managers have expressed concern over their inability to estimate accurately the costs associated with software development. Various cost estimation methods are available for use in software development process but concern lies in selecting better software cost estimation model to arrive at accurate cost estimation. This paper gave an overview of software cost estimation and ans...

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