DERIVING MODELS FOR SOFTWARE PROJECT EFFORT ESTIMATION BY MEANS OF GENETIC PROGRAMMING

Athanasios Tsakonas, Georgios Dounias

2009

Abstract

This paper presents the application of a computational intelligence methodology in effort estimation for software projects. Namely, we apply a genetic programming model for symbolic regression; aiming to produce mathematical expressions that (1) are highly accurate and (2) can be used for estimating the development effort by revealing relationships between the project’s features and the required work. We selected to investigate the effectiveness of this methodology into two software engineering domains. The system was proved able to generate models in the form of handy mathematical expressions that are more accurate than those found in literature.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Tsakonas A. and Dounias G. (2009). DERIVING MODELS FOR SOFTWARE PROJECT EFFORT ESTIMATION BY MEANS OF GENETIC PROGRAMMING . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval - Volume 1: KDIR, (IC3K 2009) ISBN 978-989-674-011-5, pages 34-42. DOI: 10.5220/0002294300340042

in Bibtex Style

@conference{kdir09,
author={Athanasios Tsakonas and Georgios Dounias},
title={DERIVING MODELS FOR SOFTWARE PROJECT EFFORT ESTIMATION BY MEANS OF GENETIC PROGRAMMING},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval - Volume 1: KDIR, (IC3K 2009)},
year={2009},
pages={34-42},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002294300340042},
isbn={978-989-674-011-5},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval - Volume 1: KDIR, (IC3K 2009)
TI - DERIVING MODELS FOR SOFTWARE PROJECT EFFORT ESTIMATION BY MEANS OF GENETIC PROGRAMMING
SN - 978-989-674-011-5
AU - Tsakonas A.
AU - Dounias G.
PY - 2009
SP - 34
EP - 42
DO - 10.5220/0002294300340042