An empirical validation of software cost estimation models
Communications of the ACM
Understanding and Controlling Software Costs
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Introduction to Grey system theory
The Journal of Grey System
Journal of Systems and Software
Reliability of function points measurement: a field experiment
Communications of the ACM
CORBA design patterns
UML distilled (2nd ed.): a brief guide to the standard object modeling language
UML distilled (2nd ed.): a brief guide to the standard object modeling language
Decision support for fuzzy comprehensive evaluation of urban development
Fuzzy Sets and Systems
Software Engineering: A Practitioner's Approach
Software Engineering: A Practitioner's Approach
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Analysis of software development cost is an important issue for both the academic and the commercial circles. There have been many methods proposed to analyze benefits and costs of software development. However, in practical applications, these methods are usually not applicable owing to various unpredictable factors, such as depression, which may affect the budget of software development, the changes of computer techniques, which may affect the cost of software development, and the adoption of different management concept, which may affect the enterprise's willingness of investing in software development. On the other hand, it is hoped that software development cost could be controlled appropriately while considering multiple requirements. In this paper, we proposed a Multi-Stage Fuzzy-Grey (MSFG) method to cope with these problems. A case study for the development of an e-training system is also given to demonstrate the benefits of our approach.