Design of software effort estimation models an approach based on linear genetic programming

Author(s):  
Roberto Sanchez ◽  
Diego P. Pinto-Roa
Author(s):  
FATIMA AZZAHRA AMAZAL ◽  
ALI IDRI ◽  
ALAIN ABRAN

Software effort estimation is one of the most important tasks in software project management. Of several techniques suggested for estimating software development effort, the analogy-based reasoning, or Case-Based Reasoning (CBR), approaches stand out as promising techniques. In this paper, the benefits of using linguistic rather than numerical values in the analogy process for software effort estimation are investigated. The performance, in terms of accuracy and tolerance of imprecision, of two analogy-based software effort estimation models (Classical Analogy and Fuzzy Analogy, which use numerical and linguistic values respectively to describe software projects) is compared. Three research questions related to the performance of these two models are discussed and answered. This study uses the International Software Benchmarking Standards Group (ISBSG) dataset and confirms the usefulness of using linguistic instead of numerical values in analogy-based software effort estimation models.


2015 ◽  
Vol 08 (03) ◽  
pp. 133-142 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nazeeh Ghatasheh ◽  
Hossam Faris ◽  
Ibrahim Aljarah ◽  
Rizik M. H. Al-Sayyed

2009 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Javier Martínez Canillas ◽  
Roberto Sánchez ◽  
Benjamín Barán

The use of decision rules and estimation techniques is increasingly common for decision mak-ing. In recent years studies were conducted which applies Genetic Programming (GP) to obtainrules to make predictions. A new branch in the area of Evolutionary Algorithms (EA) is LinearGenetic Programming (LGP). LGP evolves instructions sequences of an imperative programminglanguage. This paper proposes estimation models generation for time series forecasting using LGP.The forecasting result for the Consumer Price Index (CPI) and the price of soybeans per ton showsthe potential of this new proposal.


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