The accuracy of algorithmic models for software cost prediction is limited due to their inability to handle imprecision and uncertainties associated with the software project attributes like size, programmer experience, etc. This paper enhances the accuracy and sensitivity of one of a widely used models COCOMO81 intermediate by incorporating a fuzzy component into the model. The fuzzy component...

Estimation of a software project failure is based on project analogies in the area of software cost estimation. In all software cost estimation approaches important decisions must be made regarding certain approaches in order to obtain reliable estimate. A reliable and accurate estimate can be proved by simulation approach. A simulation modeling approach is proposed for the prediction of softwa...

Accurate estimation of software project effort plays an important role in software project management and is one of the most difficult empirical modeling tasks in software engineering. This paper introduces a piecewise linear regression model with a change point [9, 10] which includes the well-known COCOMO model as a special case. Our model is used to estimate software project effort using a NA...

Es wird gezeigt, wie man auf Basis von Anwendungsfällen (Use Case) zu Aufwandsschätzmodellen gelangen kann, die bereits sehr früh im Projektverlauf möglich sind. Voraussetzung sind essenziell beschriebene Anwendungsfälle. Die Anzahl der Essenzschritte bildet das Komplexitätsmaß. Je einheitlicher das Niveau der Essenzschritte ist, desto besser greift das Verfahren. Ein Verfahren zur Erlangung ei...

Software cost estimation is an important phase in software development. It predicts the amount of effort and development time required to build a software system. It is one of the most critical tasks and an accurate estimate provides a strong base to the development procedure. There are many cost estimation models for the estimation of the software. COCOMO model is the basic model. In this pape...

Accurate estimates are essential to the proper management of software development projects; many software estimates have very wide bounds between the lower and upper estimates of effort. The width of estimates bounds is determined by the degree of uncertainty in the available data. One of these sources of uncertainty is the use of previous projects; especially where those projects do not exhibi...

R we have been studying the characteristics of agile and plan-driven methods to provide guidance in balancing the agility and discipline required for successful software acquisitions or developments [1]. One of the most significant results of our analysis was the realization that, while methodologies, management techniques, and technical approaches are valuable, the most critical success factor...

The effort invested in a software project is one of the most challenging task and most analyzed variables in recent years in the process of project management. Software cost estimation predicts the amount of effort and development time required to build a software system. It is one of the most critical tasks and it helps the software industries to effectively manage their software development p...

  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 ...