Software engineering metrics and models
Software engineering metrics and models
Journal of Management Information Systems
Software metrics (2nd ed.): a rigorous and practical approach
Software metrics (2nd ed.): a rigorous and practical approach
Estimating Software Project Effort Using Analogies
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Proceedings of the Conference on The Future of Software Engineering
A replicated assessment and comparison of common software cost modeling techniques
Proceedings of the 22nd international conference on Software engineering
A Vector-Based Approach to Software Size Measurement and Effort Estimation
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Function-point analysis using design specifications based on the unified modelling language
Journal of Software Maintenance: Research and Practice
Software Engineering Economics
Software Engineering Economics
Software Cost Estimation with Cocomo II with Cdrom
Software Cost Estimation with Cocomo II with Cdrom
Metrics and Models in Software Quality Engineering
Metrics and Models in Software Quality Engineering
Software Engineering: A Practitioner's Approach
Software Engineering: A Practitioner's Approach
Software development cost estimation approaches – A survey
Annals of Software Engineering
Function Point Analysis: Difficulties and Improvements
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Search Heuristics, Case-based Reasoning And Software Project Effort Prediction
GECCO '02 Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference
Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach
Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach
Mapping the OO-Jacobson Approach into Function Point Analysis
TOOLS '97 Proceedings of the Tools-23: Technology of Object-Oriented Languages and Systems
Communications of the ACM - Homeland security
Automating the estimation of project size from software design tools using modified function points
ACE '04 Proceedings of the Sixth Australasian Conference on Computing Education - Volume 30
Software size prediction before coding
ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes
Class Point: An Approach for the Size Estimation of Object-Oriented Systems
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
A Probabilistic Model for Predicting Software Development Effort
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
An empirical study of process-related attributes in segmented software cost-estimation relationships
Journal of Systems and Software
A framework for the analysis of software cost estimation accuracy
Proceedings of the 2006 ACM/IEEE international symposium on Empirical software engineering
A comparative study of attribute weighting heuristics for effort estimation by analogy
Proceedings of the 2006 ACM/IEEE international symposium on Empirical software engineering
Software Effort Estimation Based on Use Cases
COMPSAC '06 Proceedings of the 30th Annual International Computer Software and Applications Conference - Volume 01
A flexible method for software effort estimation by analogy
Empirical Software Engineering
A Systematic Review of Software Development Cost Estimation Studies
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Neural Network Based Effort Estimation Using Class Points for OO Systems
ICCTA '07 Proceedings of the International Conference on Computing: Theory and Applications
A General Empirical Solution to the Macro Software Sizing and Estimating Problem
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
QSIC '07 Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Quality Software
A new calibration for Function Point complexity weights
Information and Software Technology
An empirical validation of a neural network model for software effort estimation
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Software Development Effort Estimation Using Fuzzy Logic - A Survey
FSKD '08 Proceedings of the 2008 Fifth International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery - Volume 01
Information and Software Technology
Information and Software Technology
AI-Based Models for Software Effort Estimation
SEAA '10 Proceedings of the 2010 36th EUROMICRO Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications
Software Estimation Based on Use Case Size
SBES '10 Proceedings of the 2010 Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering
An investigation of using neuro-fuzzy with software size estimation
WOSQ'09 Proceedings of the Seventh ICSE conference on Software quality
A study on the uncertainty inherent in class cohesion measurements
Journal of Systems Architecture: the EUROMICRO Journal
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Software effort prediction is an important and challenging activity that takes place during the early stages of software development, where costing is needed. Software size estimate is one of the most popular inputs for software effort prediction models. Accordingly, providing a size estimate with good accuracy early in the lifecycle is very important; it is equally challenging too. Estimates that are computed early in the development lifecycle, when it is needed the most, are typically associated with uncertainty. However, none of the prominent software effort prediction techniques or software size metrics addresses this issue satisfactorily. In this paper, we propose a framework for developing probabilistic size proxies for software effort prediction using information from conceptual UML models created early in the software development lifecycle. The framework accounts for uncertainty in software size and effort prediction by providing the estimate as a probability density function instead of a certain value. We conducted a case study using open source datasets and the results were encouraging.