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Software estimation is one of the most important activities in the software project. The software effort estimation is required in the early stages of software life cycle. Project Failure is the major problem undergoing nowadays as seen by…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-09-04 Akanksha Baghel , Meemansa Rathod , Pradeep Singh

Software effort estimation models are typically developed based on an underlying assumption that all data points are equally relevant to the prediction of effort for future projects. The dynamic nature of several aspects of the software…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Michael Franklin Bosu , Stephen G. MacDonell , Peter A. Whigham

Effort estimation is a key factor for software project success, defined as delivering software of agreed quality and functionality within schedule and budget. Traditionally, effort estimation has been used for planning and tracking project…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-01-24 Adam Trendowicz , Jürgen Münch , Ross Jeffery

Software development effort estimation is one of the most major activities in software project management. A number of models have been proposed to construct a relationship between software size and effort; however we still have problems…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2010-07-27 P. V. G. D. Prasad Reddy , K. R. Sudha , P. Rama Sree , S. N. S. V. S. C. Ramesh

Developing software projects allows students to put knowledge into practice and gain teamwork skills. However, assessing student performance in project-oriented courses poses significant challenges, particularly as the size of classes…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Anna Ogorodova , Pakizar Shamoi , Aron Karatayev

Software cost estimation is one of the prerequisite managerial activities carried out at the software development initiation stages and also repeated throughout the whole software life-cycle so that amendments to the total cost are made. In…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Efi Papatheocharous , Harris Papadopoulos , Andreas S. Andreou

Software project estimation is crucial aspect in delivering software on time and on budget. Software size is an important metric in determining the effort, cost, and productivity. Today, source lines of code and function point are the most…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-08-26 Justin Wong , Danny Ho , Luiz Fernando Capretz

Software project management makes extensive use of predictive modeling to estimate product size, defect proneness and development effort. Although uncertainty is acknowledged in these tasks, fuzzy inference systems, designed to cope well…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-02-08 Stephen G. MacDonell

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…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2013-10-22 Sumeet Kaur Sehra , Jasneet Kaur , Sukhjit Singh Sehra

Use Case Points (UCP) is a well-known method to estimate the project size, based on Use Case diagram, at early phases of software development. Although the Use Case diagram is widely accepted as a de-facto model for analyzing object…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-03-20 Mohammad Azzeh , Ali Bou Nassif

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

Deep learning models, despite their popularity, face challenges such as long training times and a lack of interpretability. In contrast, fuzzy inference systems offer a balance of accuracy and transparency. This paper addresses the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Kaike Sa Teles Rocha Alves , Eduardo Pestana de Aguiar

Effort Estimation has always been a challenging task for the Project managers. Many researchers have tried to help them by creating different types of models. This has been already proved that none is successful for all types of projects…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2013-10-22 Sumeet Kaur Sehra , Dr. Yadwinder Singh Brar , Dr. Navdeep Kaur

Predicting the time to build software is a very complex task for software engineering managers. There are complex factors that can directly interfere with the productivity of the development team. Factors directly related to the complexity…

This paper introduces a novel approach to project success evaluation by integrating fuzzy logic into an existing construct. Traditional Likert-scale measures often overlook the context-dependent and multifaceted nature of project success.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-18 João Granja-Correia , Remedios Hernández-Linares , Luca Ferranti , Arménio Rego

Fuzzy systems have achieved great success in numerous applications. However, there are still many challenges in designing an optimal fuzzy system, e.g., how to efficiently optimize its parameters, how to balance the trade-off between…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-16 Dongrui Wu , Chin-Teng Lin , Jian Huang , Zhigang Zeng

Risk specialists are trying to understand risk better and use complex models for risk assessment, while many risks are not yet well understood. The lack of empirical data and complex causal and outcome relationships make it difficult to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Hengameh Fakhravar

Software development effort estimation (SDEE) is one of the main tasks in software project management. It is crucial for a project manager to efficiently predict the effort or cost of a software project in a bidding process, since…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-08-23 Ali Bou Nassif , Mohammad Azzeh , Luiz Fernando Capretz , Danny Ho

Bug severity prediction is important in software maintenance, because it helps the development teams to prioritize bugs that have a significant impact on the operation, stability and security of the system. In large software projects bug…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Nafisha Tamanna Nice

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