Software estimation provides an important tool for project planning; whose quality and accuracy greatly affect the success of a project. There are several area of the software engineering in which we can use the function point analysis like project planning, project construction, software implementation etc. In software development, accuracy and efficiency of cost estimation methodology for a w...

Large-scale intra-organizational, yet decentralized software projects that involve various selfcontained organizational units require architecture guidelines to coordinate development. Tool support allows for managing architecture-guideline violations to ensure software quality. However, the decentralized development across units results in significant violation-management hurdles that must be ...

Software quality-in-use comprehends the quality from user’s perspectives. It has gained its importance in e-learning applications, mobile service based applications and project management tools. User’s decisions on software acquisitions are often ad hoc or based on preference due to difficulty in quantitatively measure software quality-in-use. However, why qualityin-use measurement is difficult...

This paper presents an empirical study aiming to evaluate the application of system dynamics models in software project management. In this study, a project concerning the specification and implementation of part of an academic control system for a graduate department was proposed for several participants. The project was decomposed into an activity network and several developers were available...

Higher-precision inferences about impending software failures can be achieved when the same software reliability model that fits failure data from the test interval also fits data from the field interval. If the test and field environments differ significantly in terms of how the software is used, then a single model for the pooled data may not be adequate. In this article we formulate the hypo...

Accurate and early estimations are essential for effective decision making in software project management. Nowadays, classical estimation models are being replaced by data mining models due to their application simplicity and the rapid production of profitable results. In this work, a method for mining association rules that relate project attributes is proposed. It deals with the problem of di...

Background. The goal of software measurement and analysis is to produce information for the people performing technical and managerial tasks. Information-centric assessment can identify opportunities to better meet that goal. This paper presents a study into the assessment of Information Quality for Software Project Management using generic and targeted information quality models. The setting f...

The purpose of this study is to clarify the mechanism of how software engineering capabilities relate to the business performance of IT vendors based on the continuous researches in 2005, 2006 and 2007. To end this, we developed a structural model, including the Software Engineering Excellence (SEE) indicator which consisted of deliverables, project management, quality assurance, process improv...

Traditional software engineering approaches are no longer suitable when dealing with the development of innovative, complex software systems, such as e.g. applications of neural networks for geophysical subsurface modeling. At TNO, we succeeded to deene and to establish a \hybrid" life cycle plan that integrates the developers' view of a creative, exible and unrestricted development process on ...