The project management process has been used in the area of Software Engineering to support managers keep projects under control. One essential processes is conduct an accurate and reliable estimation required effort complete project. This article’s objectives are: i) identify variables that influence based on correlation, ii) apply Extreme Learning Machine - ELM model for compare it with liter...

In software cost estimation various methods have been proposed to yield a prediction of the productivity of a software project. Most of the methods produce point estimates. However, in practice it is more realistic and useful to have a method providing interval predictions. Although some methods accompany a point estimate with a prediction interval, it is also reasonable to use a method predict...

A cornerstone of software project management is effort estimation, the process by which effort is forecasted and used as basis to predict costs and allocate resources effectively, so enabling projects to be delivered on time and within budget. Effort estimation is a very complex domain where the relationship between factors is non-deterministic and has an inherently uncertain nature, and where ...

A new approach to perform feasibility studies using business process models is proposed. The utilization of the improved Role Activity Diagram notations has led to the extraction of the number of candidate use cases in software systems which naturally led to software cost estimation much before the availability of detailed system requirements. This enables project managers to perform their what...