CONTEXT: Software development effort estimation (SDEE) is the process of predicting the
effort required to develop a software system. In order to improve estimation accuracy, many …

In terms of the availability and accuracy of positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT), the
traditional Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) algorithms and models perform well …

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

Accurate estimation of software development effort estimation (SDEE) is fundamental for
efficient management of software development projects as it assists software managers to …

In this paper, we present the collection and mining of GitHub data, aiming to understand
GitHub user behavior and project success factors. We collected information about …

Software development effort estimation (SDEE) remains as the principal activity in software
project management planning. Over the past four decades, several methods have been …

To date most research in software effort estimation has not taken chronology into account
when selecting projects for training and validation sets. A chronological split represents the …

Practitioners perceive software productivity as one of the most important subjects of software
engineering (SE) because it connects technical to social and economic aspects …

The decision tree (DT) represents a nonparametric estimation method that has been mostly
used for both classification and regression problems. DTs were adopted for software …

Data quality is an important issue which has been addressed and recognised in research
communities such as data warehousing, data mining and information systems. It has been …