Software development effort and cost estimation (SDECE) is one of the most important tasks
in the field of software engineering. A large number of research papers have been published …

Abstract Context Analogy-based Software development Effort Estimation (ASEE) techniques
have gained considerable attention from the software engineering community. However …

Accurate software development effort estimation is crucial to efficient planning of software
projects. Due to complex nature of software projects, development effort estimation has …

Context Due to the complex nature of software development process, traditional parametric
models and statistical methods often appear to be inadequate to model the increasingly …

Software estimation is a tedious and daunting task in project management and software
development. Software estimators are notorious in predicting software effort and they have …

For both clients and developers in the development of software, the effort estimate is vital.
Lower efforts may lead to poorly created processes, low-quality and delayed budgets being …

Delivering an accurate estimate of software development effort plays a decisive role in
successful management of a software project. Therefore, several effort estimation …

Several software effort estimation techniques based on mathematical formulations have
been proposed, however there is little consensus on the best technique for effort estimation …

Several feature weight optimization techniques have been proposed for similarity functions
in analogy-based estimation (ABE); however, no consensus regarding the method and …

Missing Data (MD) is a widespread problem that can affect the ability to use data to construct
effective software development effort prediction systems. This paper investigates the use of …