The frequently observed positive impact of adopting risk management strategies on projects’ overall outcome has led many software development organizations to appreciate its significant role in the pursuit of cost reduction, schedule overruns decrease and, generally, improved performance. In line with this issue, this study investigates a wide range of relevant literature, proposes a new concep...

This paper compares the performance of the maximum-simulated likelihood (MSL) approach with the composite marginal likelihood (CML) approach in multivariate ordered-response situations. The ability of the two approaches to recover model parameters in simulated data sets is examined, as is the efficiency of estimated parameters and computational cost. Overall, the simulation results demonstrate ...

Accurate cost estimation helps to complete project within time and budget. Many estimation models have been proposed over the last 30 years. This paper provides a detail overview of existing software cost estimation models and techniques. Cost estimation models are basically of two types: algorithmic and non-algorithmic. It also includes the recent developed techniques for software cost estimat...

Abstract Additive manufacturing (AM), which was first applied for rapid prototyping, is now becoming a real option small-batch production of final products. Further expansion AM closely correlated to costs. can only become competitive traditional methods if product designed already from the beginning as it an expensive technology that should be adds enough value product. The aim this paper incr...

Software cost estimation is a crucial part of the software project initiation process. Cost estimation plays an important role in the bidding/budgeting and help managers to use their resources at the maximum output level. Software Project failure rate is very high in case the project cost estimation is not done by taking all the important factors into the consideration. So finding the cost at t...

Culture and leadership factors play an important role in software development and cost estimation. We discuss the many dimensions of culture and leadership and their impact on cost estimation in software development. We conducted a survey to identify leadership and cultural factors that may influence the software development process and its associated cost. A cost estimation model incorporating...

Article history: Received 17 January 2015 Revised 31 March 2015 Accepted 3 April 2015 Given a query (a health question), retrieval of relevant frequently asked questions (FAQs) is essential as the FAQs provide both reliable and readable information to healthcare consumers. The retrieval requires the estimation of the semantic similarity between the query and each FAQ. The similarity estimation ...

Software organizations are encouraged to adopt reuse strategies into their development processes. Organizations use software reuse cost estimation models to assess the feasibility of investment in reuse programs. Each organization is unique in its resources and capabilities. Thus, the initial logical step in establishing a reuse program is to examine relevant reuse-specific cost factors applica...