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Neural Network and Statistical Modeling of Software Development Effort

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Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Soft Computing for Problem Solving (SocProS 2012), December 28-30, 2012

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Many modeling studies that aimed at providing an accurate relationship between the software project effort (or cost) and the involved cost drivers have been conducted for effective management of software projects. However, the derived models are only applicable for a specific project and its variables. In this chapter, we present the use of back-propagation neural network (NN) to model the software development (SD) effort of 18 SD NASA projects based on six cost drivers. The performance of the NN model was also compared with a multi-regression model and other models available in the literature.

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The authors would like to acknowledge the financial support extended by the Faulty of Engineering and Built Environment, University of Johannesburg.

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  1. Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering Science, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa

    Ruchi Shukla

  2. Department of Mechanical Engineering Technology, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa

    Mukul Shukla

  3. Department of Mechanical Engineering, MNNIT, Allahabad, UP, India

    Mukul Shukla

  4. Faulty of Engineering and Built Environment, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa

    Tshilidzi Marwala

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  1. Institute of Engineering and Technology, JK Lakshmipat University, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India

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  3. Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India

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Shukla, R., Shukla, M., Marwala, T. (2014). Neural Network and Statistical Modeling of Software Development Effort. In: Babu, B., et al. Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Soft Computing for Problem Solving (SocProS 2012), December 28-30, 2012. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 236. Springer, New Delhi. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-1602-5_21

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