IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering - Special section on the seventh international software metrics symposium
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering - Special section on the seventh international software metrics symposium
A comparison of case-based reasoning approaches
Proceedings of the 11th international conference on World Wide Web
Identifying High Performance ERP Projects
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
The New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia - Hypermedia and the world wide web
Do adaptation rules improve web cost estimation?
Proceedings of the fourteenth ACM conference on Hypertext and hypermedia
Combining techniques to optimize effort predictions in software project management
Journal of Systems and Software
Estimating the development cost of custom software
Information and Management
A Simulation Study of the Model Evaluation Criterion MMRE
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
A Short Note on Safest Default Missingness Mechanism Assumptions
Empirical Software Engineering
Reliability and Validity in Comparative Studies of Software Prediction Models
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Applying statistical methodology to optimize and simplify software metric models with missing data
Proceedings of the 2006 ACM symposium on Applied computing
Cross-company and single-company effort models using the ISBSG database: a further replicated study
Proceedings of the 2006 ACM/IEEE international symposium on Empirical software engineering
The adjusted analogy-based software effort estimation based on similarity distances
Journal of Systems and Software
Proceedings of the 16th international conference on World Wide Web
Outlier elimination in construction of software metric models
Proceedings of the 2007 ACM symposium on Applied computing
Cross versus Within-Company Cost Estimation Studies: A Systematic Review
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Journal of Systems and Software
Cross-company vs. single-company web effort models using the Tukutuku database: An extended study
Journal of Systems and Software
Comparing cost prediction models by resampling techniques
Journal of Systems and Software
Evaluating ERP projects using DEA and regression analysis
International Journal of Business Information Systems
Exploring case-based reasoning for web hypermedia project cost estimation
International Journal of Web Engineering and Technology
Combining probabilistic models for explanatory productivity estimation
Information and Software Technology
A comparative evaluation on the accuracies of software effort estimates from clustered data
Information and Software Technology
Evaluation of preliminary data analysis framework in software cost estimation based on ISBSG R9 Data
Software Quality Control
Journal of Computational Methods in Sciences and Engineering - Selected papers from the International Conference on Computer Science,Software Engineering, Information Technology, e-Business, and Applications, 2003
Reducing biases in individual software effort estimations: a combining approach
Proceedings of the Second ACM-IEEE international symposium on Empirical software engineering and measurement
Journal of Systems and Software
Price information evaluation and prediction for broiler using adapted case-based reasoning approach
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Web Cost Estimation and Productivity Benchmarking
Software Engineering
Applying fuzzy neural network to estimate software development effort
Applied Intelligence
A study of the non-linear adjustment for analogy based software cost estimation
Empirical Software Engineering
Applying support vector regression for web effort estimation using a cross-company dataset
ESEM '09 Proceedings of the 2009 3rd International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement
Using Support Vector Regression for Web Development Effort Estimation
IWSM '09 /Mensura '09 Proceedings of the International Conferences on Software Process and Product Measurement
An application of Bayesian network for predicting object-oriented software maintainability
Information and Software Technology
Visual comparison of software cost estimation models by regression error characteristic analysis
Journal of Systems and Software
Using genetic programming to improve software effort estimation based on general data sets
GECCO'03 Proceedings of the 2003 international conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation: PartII
Adaptive ridge regression system for software cost estimating on multi-collinear datasets
Journal of Systems and Software
Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Predictive Models in Software Engineering
Combining techniques for software quality classification: An integrated decision network approach
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Comparison of weighted grey relational analysis for software effort estimation
Software Quality Control
Systematic literature review of machine learning based software development effort estimation models
Information and Software Technology
A replicated assessment and comparison of adaptation techniques for analogy-based effort estimation
Empirical Software Engineering
Empirical Software Engineering
EASE'09 Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering
A systematic review of cross- vs. within- company cost estimation studies
EASE'06 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering
Maximising data retention from the ISBSG repository
EASE'08 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering
EASE'08 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering
International Journal of Intelligent Information Technologies
On the value of outlier elimination on software effort estimation research
Empirical Software Engineering
A novel fuzzy based approach for effort estimation in software development
ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes
Information and Software Technology
Towards a simplified definition of Function Points
Information and Software Technology
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In this paper we investigate the accuracy of cost estimates when applying most commonly used modeling techniques to a large-scale industrial data set which is professionally maintained by the International Software Standards Benchmarking Group (ISBSG). The modeling techniques applied are ordinary least squares regression (OLS), Analogy-based estimation, stepwise ANOVA, CART, and robust regression. The questions we address in this study are related to important issues. The first is the appropriate selection of a technique in a given context. The second is the assessment of the feasibility of using multi-organizational data compared to the benefits from company-specific data collection. We compare company-specific models with models based on multi-company data. This is done by using the estimates derived for one company that contributed to the ISBSG data set and estimates from using carefully matched data from the rest of the ISBSG data. When using the ISBSG data set to derive estimates for the company generally poor results were obtained. Robust regression and OLS performed most accurately. When using the company's own data as the basis for estimation, OLS, a CART-variant, and Analogy performed best. In contrast to previous studies, the estimation accuracy when using the company's data is significantly higher than when using the rest of the ISBSG data set. Thus, from these results, the company that contributed to the ISBSG data set, would be better off when using its own data for cost estimation.