CONTEXT: Software development effort estimation (SDEE) is the process of predicting the
effort required to develop a software system. In order to improve estimation accuracy, many …

This paper aims to provide a basis for the improvement of software-estimation research
through a systematic review of previous work. The review identifies 304 software cost …

In the software engineering, estimation of the effort, time and cost required for the
development of software projects is an important issue. It is a very difficult task for project …

As software becomes more complex and its scope dramatically increases, the importance of
research on developing methods for estimating software development efforts has …

Software fault and effort prediction are important tasks to minimize costs of a software
project. In software effort prediction the aim is to forecast the effort needed to complete a …

Accurate estimation of software project effort is crucial for successful management and
control of a software project. Recently, multiple additive regression trees (MART) has been …

Software cost estimation is one of the most crucial activities in software development
process. In the past decades, many methods have been proposed for cost estimation. Case …

Accurate effort estimation is amongst the key activities in the software project development. It
directly impacts the time and cost of the software projects. This paper presents a systematic …

Accurate estimation of software development effort is essential for effective management
and control of software development projects. Many software effort estimation methods have …

In this paper, we show that when an artificial neural network (ANN) model is used for
learning monotonic forecasting functions, it may be useful to screen training data so the …