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Software development effort estimation is one of the most critical aspect in software development process, as the success or failure of the entire project depends on the accuracy of estimations. Researchers are still conducting studies on…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Sisay Deresa Sima , Ayalew Belay Habtie

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

Neuro-encoded expression programming(NEEP) that aims to offer a novel continuous representation of combinatorial encoding for genetic programming methods is proposed in this paper. Genetic programming with linear representation uses…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-04-12 Aftab Anjum , Fengyang Sun , Lin Wang , Jeff Orchard

Software testing is one of the important ways to ensure the quality of software. It is found that testing cost more than 50% of overall project cost. Effective and efficient software testing utilizes the minimum resources of software.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Ali Nawaz , Attique Ur Rehman , Muhammad Abbas

An evolutionary approach for computing the winning strategy for Nim-like games is proposed in this paper. The winning strategy is computed by using the Multi Expression Programming (MEP) technique - a fast and efficient variant of the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Mihai Oltean

The primary aim of automated performance improvement is to reduce the running time of programs while maintaining (or improving on) functionality. In this paper, Genetic Programming is used to find performance improvements in regular…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-04-14 Brendan Cody-Kenny , Michael Fenton , Adrian Ronayne , Eoghan Considine , Thomas McGuire , Michael O'Neill

This paper introduces Multi-population Ensemble Genetic Programming (MEGP), a computational intelligence framework that integrates cooperative coevolution and the multiview learning paradigm to address classification challenges in…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Mohammad Sadegh Khorshidi , Navid Yazdanjue , Hassan Gharoun , Mohammad Reza Nikoo , Fang Chen , Amir H. Gandomi

Estimating effort based on requirement texts presents many challenges, especially in obtaining viable features to infer effort. Aiming to explore a more effective technique for representing textual requirements to infer effort estimates by…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-07-01 Eliane M. De Bortoli Fávero , Dalcimar Casanova , Andrey Ricardo Pimentel

Software development effort estimation is considered a fundamental task for software development life cycle as well as for managing project cost, time and quality. Therefore, accurate estimation is a substantial factor in projects success…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-08-11 Nazeeh Ghatasheh , Hossam Faris , Ibrahim Aljarah , Rizik M. H. Al-Sayyed

The objective of this paper is to define an effective strategy for building an ensemble of Genetic Programming (GP) models. Ensemble methods are widely used in machine learning due to their features: they average out biases, they reduce the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-06-14 Mauro Castelli , Ivo Gonçalves , Luca Manzoni , Leonardo Vanneschi

This work aims to study and explore the use of Gene Expression Programming (GEP) in solving the on-line Bin-Packing problem. The main idea is to show how GEP can automatically find acceptable heuristic rules to solve the problem efficiently…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-01-28 Najla Akram Al-Saati

Effort estimation is a crucial activity in agile software development, where teams collaboratively review, discuss, and estimate the effort required to complete user stories in a product backlog. Current practices in agile effort estimation…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Thanh-Long Bui , Hoa Khanh Dam , Rashina Hoda

It is well recognized that the project productivity is a key driver in estimating software project effort from Use Case Point size metric at early software development stages. Although, there are few proposed models for predicting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-18 Mohammad Azzeh , Ali Bou Nassif , Shadi Banitaan , Cuauhtemoc Lopez-Martin

In the last couple of years we have witnessed an enormous increase of machine learning (ML) applications. More and more program functions are no longer written in code, but learnt from a huge amount of data samples using an ML algorithm.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Peter Kriens , Tim Verbelen

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

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

Semi-autogenous grinding (SAG) mills play a pivotal role in the grinding circuit of mineral processing plants. Accurate prediction of SAG mill throughput as a crucial performance metric is of utmost importance. The potential of applying…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Zahra Ghasemi , Mehdi Nesht , Chris Aldrich , John Karageorgos , Max Zanin , Frank Neumann , Lei Chen

Genetic Programming is an evolutionary algorithm that generates computer programs, or mathematical expressions, to solve complex problems. In this Guide, we demonstrate how to use Genetic Programming to develop surrogate models to mitigate…

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

The job of software effort estimation is a critical one in the early stages of the software development life cycle when the details of requirements are usually not clearly identified. Various optimization techniques help in improving the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-01-16 Shashank Mouli Satapathy , Santanu Kumar Rath