[PDF] Top 20 Neural Network based Software Effort Estimation: A Survey

... soft-ware effort estimation. Authors estimated effort using McCabe Complexity (1976), Dhama Coupling (Martin et ...the neural network model trained using previous data has good ... See full document

... for Effort Estimation consists of 4 phases namely PreProcessing, Training, Estimation and ...The effort estimation technique proposed consists of a pre processing phase where in the ... See full document

... As mentioned earlier, there are various types of networks. Out of these variations, there is one which considers a node as an artificial neuron. Technically, artificial neural network (ANN) is the name ... See full document

... the software project manager and the development team and another is acknowledged by all the stake holders as ...is based on the careful analysis of the relevant historical project data (similar processes, ... See full document

... - Software effort estimation is the process of predicting the most realistic amount of effort (expressed in terms of person-hours or money) required to develop or maintain software ... See full document

... a software development ...computing based. These include artificial neural network, evolutionary computation, fuzzy logic models, case-based reasoning, and combinational models and so ... See full document

... By literature review, one could deduce that combination of different strategies leads to better results [19]. Differences in the simplicity and flexibility of methods convince researchers to combine methods to cover ... See full document

... the software. Some of the business buys new software while some of them develop new ...of software to be used as well as time taken for ...of software product, effort, duration and cost ... See full document

... Effort estimation is required to yield accurate cost associated with the software ...The software crisis becomes critical analysis under circumstances in which failure in software is ... See full document

... “Software Effort Estimation Using Neuro-Fuzzy Approach” (2012) in this paper they explore Neuro-fuzzy techniques to design a suitable model to utilize improved estimation of software ... See full document

... the software product in thousands of Delivered Source Instructions (KDSI) adjusted for code reuse; (2) the project development mode given as a constant value B (also called the scaling factor); and (3) 15 cost ... See full document

... the software testing effort. This fuzzy based model uses a fuzzy logic, which is a powerful tool for solving the real world problems with uncertain and imprecise information in dealing with the ... See full document

... computing based. Non algorithmic models for cost estimation encompass methodologies on fuzzy logic (FL), artificial neural networks (ANN) and evolutionary computation .... Neural networks have ... See full document

... cost estimation. Software researchers have turned their attention to new approaches those are based on soft computing methodologies such as based on artificial neural networks and fuzzy ... See full document

... the neural network ...projects based on four experiments which include evaluation using all data points (65 projects), evaluation using small data points (25 projects), evaluation using medium-sized ... See full document

... global software development industry has now become more matured and ...the software development effort, and then create project development ...a neural network (NN) approach and a ... See full document

... the neural net topology. A single wide neural networ k will be able to learn any function given enough training ...Multi-Layered neural network topology will generalize the training data in a ... See full document

... software effort estimation. Artificial neural network can model complex non premier relationship and approx any major able ...estimating software effort is feed forward ... See full document

... [12], Neural Network [8], data mining [5], ...of estimation using Bayesian network approach based on PSO and this has been done with the help of tool generated by us in ...former ... See full document

... the software code and scales such that very complex, complex, medium, simple, and very ...the software meets the requirements that are ...N. Software effort estimation of each ... See full document