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...

Software Cost Estimation is used for large-scaled and complex software systems leads managers to settle SCE as one of the most vital activities that is closely related to predicate the success or failure of the whole development process. Propose a statistical framework based on a multiple comparisons algorithm in order to rank several cost estimation models, identifying those which have signifi...

All too frequently, a software cost estimate is required in the early stages of the life-cycle when requirements and design specifications are immature. To produce a cost estimate under these conditions requires extensive use of expert judgment and addressing significant estimation uncertainty. Research has shown that expert judgment under the right conditions can yield relatively "accurate" es...

The most significant activity in software development is to develop projects within confined time and budget. As accuracy plays a vital role for software system. Prediction of effort estimation is one of the critical tasks required for developing software. In this paper we perform the performance study of fuzzy logic and genetic algorithm to make an intelligent application for the purpose of pr...

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...

Software project planning and estimation is the most important confront for software developers and researchers. It incorporates estimating the size of the software project to be produced, estimating the effort required, developing initial project schedules, and ultimately, estimating on the whole cost of the project. Numerous empirical explorations have been performed on the existing methods, ...

Software undergoes changes at all stages of the software development process. Accepting too many changes will cause expense and delay and rejecting the changes may cause customer dissatisfaction. One of the inputs that help the software project management to decide whether to accept or reject the changes is by having a reliable estimation of the change effort. From a software development perspe...