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This paper looks into productivity of 634 software projects completed between 2009 and 2013 within the IT department of the Dutch tax administration. A predictive neural network based model is developed in order to produce better estimates for future development efforts. Direct cost drivers and numerous organizational changes are identified in order to analyze their impact on productivity. The ...

Software effort estimation requires high accuracy, but accurate estimations are difficult to achieve. Increasingly, data mining is used to improve an organization’s software process quality, e.g. the accuracy of effort estimations .There are a large number of different method combination exists for software effort estimation, selecting the most suitable combination becomes the subject of resear...

Software effort estimation assesses the quantity of work required to develop a software project. It is a well known fact that the software industry is unable to give proper an estimate of effort, time and development cost and this is described in reports in various reports including those from project management consultancy companies through case studies on failed projects, and surveys. In this...

Audio effect implementation on random musical signal is a basic application of digital signal processors. In this paper, the compatibility features of MATLAB R2008a with Code Composer Studio 3.3 has been exploited to develop Simulink models which when emulated on TMS320C6713 DSK generate real time audio effects. Each design has been done by two different asynchronous scheduling techniques: (i) ...

This paper proposes a new approach to estimate software costs using case-based reasoning. In this approach, the costs of a new software project are estimated by firstly retrieving the similar previous project and then adapting its costs to the current conditions. The approach focus on the estimation within a narrow context. The project is described as an ontology which allows the managers to es...

Software cost and effort estimation is the most vulnerable issue in software development technology. Due continuous changing resources and customer involvements, software effort estimation has become more challenging issue in software management. To accurately estimate software cost and effort is difficult for both developers as well as customers. It has become very difficult to establish relat...