Title: Exploring case-based reasoning for web hypermedia project cost estimation

Authors: Emilia Mendes, Nile Mosley, Steve Counsell

Addresses: Department of Computer Science, The University of Auckland, 38 Princes Street, Auckland, New Zealand. ' MetriQ Limited, 19A Clairville Crescent, Wai-O-Taiki Bay, Auckland, New Zealand. ' Department of Computer Science and Information Systems, Brunel University, Uxbridge UB8 3PH, Middlesex, UK

Abstract: This paper compares several methods of analogy-based effort estimation, including the use of adaptation rules as a contributing factor to better estimation accuracy. Two data sets are used in the analysis. Results show that best predictions were obtained for the dataset that presented a continuous |cost| function and was more |unspoiled|.

Keywords: case-based reasoning; prediction models; web effort prediction; web hypermedia; web hypermedia metrics; cost estimation.

DOI: 10.1504/IJWET.2005.007467

International Journal of Web Engineering and Technology, 2005 Vol.2 No.1, pp.117 - 143

Published online: 22 Jul 2005 *

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