The actual effort to evolve and maintain a software system is likely to vary depending on the
amount of clones (ie, duplicated or slightly different code fragments) present in the system …

Software effort and cost estimation is a very important activity that includes very uncertain
elements. In the context of object oriented software, traditional methods and metrics were …

Function‐point analysis was introduced to help measure the functionality of software
systems. For more than a decade, function points have been widely used to measure the …

We present an empirical validation of object-oriented size estimation models. In previous
work we proposed object oriented function points (OOFP), an adaptation of the function …

Background Source code size in terms of SLOC (source lines of code) is the input of many
parametric software effort estimation models. However, it is unavailable at the early phase of …

We consider convertibility of the elements of the unified modeling language into entities of
the function point analysis, introduces a model for establishing the link, and presents a pilot …

The rise of the use of mobile technologies in the world, such as smartphones and tablets,
connected to mobile networks is changing old habits and creating new ways for the society …

Software size estimation is a key factor to determine the amount of time and effort needed to
develop software systems, and the Web applications are no exception. In this paper a …

Estimating different characteristics viz., size, cost, etc. of software during different phases of
software development is required to manage the resources effectively. Function points …

In this paper, we describe a method to detect collisions between volumetric objects. A
hierarchy of bounding spheres is computed from a volumetric object based on the distance …