Software Effort Estimation (SEE) is one of the main activities in development of the software projects. Effort estimation in primary stages of development of the software is one of the important challenges the software projects manager faces. One of the common models of SEE is the Constructive Cost Model (COCOMO) model. In this model, the effort for development of the software projects is a fun...

The object-oriented technological evolution involving the software industry induces changes in the managerial and organizational models for the software-houses. One of the critical issue for software producers is the cost estimation and control. The research described in this paper is aimed to verify the inadequacy of traditional software cost estimation models and to define an innovative model...

The software industry has rapidly expanded, and development is now essential to the success of many multinational corporations. demand for complex systems also dramatically increased. Effective essential, given limitations resources such as money, time, labor. cost effort calculations affect process client needs. Project failure was usually caused by errors in job estimating. Underestimating co...

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...