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...

  These days, data mining one of the most significant issues. One field data mining is a mixture of computer science and statistics which is considerably limited due to increase in digital data and growth of computational power of computer. One of the domains of data mining is the software cost estimation category. In this article, classifying techniques of learning algorithm of machine ...

This report is dedicated to the processor characterization method and software cost estimation technique used in the Polis Codesign tool environment. The processor characterization method has been exercised by applying it to the ARM processor family. In particular, two processors, ARM7TDMI and ARM920T, have been examined. An improved method is proposed, which is supported and partially automate...

One important problem with software development projects is to get an early and nevertheless accurate estimation of the software development costs. In the literature various methods have been developed for this purpose. The most popular examples are Boehm's COCOMO , Albrecht's function-point method or Sneed's object-point method . The two last-named methods are based on early results of the ana...