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Software estimation is a crucial task in software engineering. Software estimation encompasses cost, effort, schedule, and size. The importance of software estimation becomes critical in the early stages of the software life cycle when the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-12-06 Ali Bou Nassif , Luiz Fernando Capretz , Danny Ho

Models for effort and cost estimation are important for distributed software development as well as for collocated software and system development. Standard cost models only insufficiently consider the characteristics of distributed…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-01-14 Ansgar Lamersdorf , Jürgen Münch , Alicia Fernández-del Viso Torre , Carlos Rebate Sánchez , Dieter Rombach

Big science initiatives are trying to reconstruct and model the brain by attempting to simulate brain tissue at larger scales and with increasingly more biological detail than previously thought possible. The exponential growth of parallel…

Performance · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Francesco Cremonesi , Georg Hager , Gerhard Wellein , Felix Schürmann

Software effort can be measured by story point [35]. Current approaches for automatically estimating story points focus on applying pre-trained embedding models and deep learning for text regression to solve this problem which required…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-07-04 Hung Phan , Ali Jannesari

Many cost estimation models have been proposed over the last three decades. In this study, we investigate fuzzy ID3 decision tree as a method for software effort estimation. Fuzzy ID software effort estimation model is designed by…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2012-04-12 Sanaa Elyassami , Ali Idri

Machine learning techniques always aim to reduce the generalized prediction error. In order to reduce it, ensemble methods present a good approach combining several models that results in a greater forecasting capacity. The Random Machines…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-03-31 Anderson Ara , Mateus Maia , Samuel Macêdo , Francisco Louzada

Neural Networks (NNs) have been extensively used for a wide spectrum of real-world regression tasks, where the goal is to predict a numerical outcome such as revenue, effectiveness, or a quantitative result. In many such tasks, the point…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-05 Xin Qiu , Elliot Meyerson , Risto Miikkulainen

In particular, large-scale deep learning and artificial intelligence model training uses a lot of computational power and energy, so it poses serious sustainability issues. The fast rise in model complexity has resulted in exponential…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Yashasvi Makin , Rahul Maliakkal

Data is a cornerstone of empirical software engineering (ESE) research and practice. Data underpin numerous process and project management activities, including the estimation of development effort and the prediction of the likely location…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Michael F. Bosu , Stephen G. MacDonell

Empirical software engineering is concerned with measuring, or estimating, both the effort put into the software process and the quality of its product. We defend the idea that measuring process effort and product quality and establishing a…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2016-08-16 Françoise Détienne , Jean-Marie Burkhardt , Willemien Visser

According to a study of The Standish Group International, 44% of software projects cost more and last longer than expected. More accurate the effort estimation is; the better the enterprise gets organized and the more the software project…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-09-03 S Laqrichi , Didier Gourc , François Marmier

Many problems related to the quality of requirements arise during elicitation and specification activities since they are written in natural language. The flexibility and inherent nature of language make requirements prone to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-05-14 María Guadalupe Gramajo , Luciana Ballejos , Mariel Ale

In this paper, we propose improvements in how estimation bias, e.g., the tendency towards under-estimating the effort, is measured. The proposed approach emphasizes the need to know what the estimates are meant to represent, i.e., the type…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Magne Jørgensen

Improvement of statistical learning models in order to increase efficiency in solving classification or regression problems is still a goal pursued by the scientific community. In this way, the support vector machine model is one of the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-11-22 Anderson Ara , Mateus Maia , Samuel Macêdo , Francisco Louzada

Channel estimation is crucial in wireless communications. However, in many papers neural networks are frequently tested by training and testing on one example channel or similar channels. This is because data-driven methods often degrade on…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-22 Dianxin Luan , John Thompson

Background. Effort-aware metrics (EAMs) are widely used to evaluate the effectiveness of software defect prediction models, while accounting for the effort needed to analyze the software modules that are estimated defective. The usual…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Luigi Lavazza , Gabriele Rotoloni , Sandro Morasca

Despite the predictive performance of Analogy-Based Estimation (ABE) in generating better effort estimates, there is no consensus on how to predict the best number of analogies, and which adjustment technique produces better estimates. This…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-03-20 Mohammad Azzeh , Yousef Elsheikh , Marwan Alseid

The objective of this research work is to improve the degree of excellence by removing the number of exceptions from the software. The modern age is more concerned with the quality of software. Extensive research is being carried out in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-04-22 Ekbal Rashid , Srikanta Patnaik , Vandana Bhattacherjee

Accurate software effort estimation has been a challenge for many software practitioners and project managers. Underestimation leads to disruption in the projects estimated cost and delivery. On the other hand, overestimation causes…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-08-31 Ali Bou Nassif , Mohammad Azzeh , Luiz Fernando Capretz , Danny Ho

Most machine learning techniques are based upon statistical learning theory, often simplified for the sake of computing speed. This paper is focused on the uncertainty aspect of mathematical modeling in machine learning. Regression analysis…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Valentin Arkov