IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering - Special section on the seventh international software metrics symposium
A Procedure for Assessing the Influence of Problem Domain on Effort Estimation Consistency
Software Quality Control
Estimating the development cost of custom software
Information and Management
A Short Note on Safest Default Missingness Mechanism Assumptions
Empirical Software Engineering
Assessing Variation in Development Effort Consistency Using a Data Source with Missing Data
Software Quality Control
Categorical missing data imputation for software cost estimation by multinomial logistic regression
Journal of Systems and Software
Applying statistical methodology to optimize and simplify software metric models with missing data
Proceedings of the 2006 ACM symposium on Applied computing
A flexible method for software effort estimation by analogy
Empirical Software Engineering
An empirical study of the impact of team size on software development effort
Information Technology and Management
Developing project duration models in software engineering
Journal of Computer Science and Technology
Journal of Systems and Software
A statistical framework for analyzing the duration of software projects
Empirical Software Engineering
Functional size measurement revisited
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
Combining probabilistic models for explanatory productivity estimation
Information and Software Technology
A new calibration for Function Point complexity weights
Information and Software Technology
Software Process and Product Measurement
Impact of Base Functional Component Types on Software Functional Size Based Effort Estimation
PROFES '08 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement
Cases, Predictions, and Accuracy Learning and Its Application to Effort Estimation
ECCBR '08 Proceedings of the 9th European conference on Advances in Case-Based Reasoning
The relationship between software development team size and software development cost
Communications of the ACM - Rural engineering development
Journal of Systems and Software
A neuro-fuzzy model for function point calibration
WSEAS Transactions on Information Science and Applications
Information and Software Technology
How to Use COSMIC Functional Size in Effort Estimation Models?
IWSM/Metrikon/Mensura '08 Proceedings of the International Conferences on Software Process and Product Measurement
Updating weight values for function point counting
International Journal of Hybrid Intelligent Systems
Analogy Based Cost Estimation Configuration with Rules
Proceedings of the 2008 conference on Knowledge-Based Software Engineering: Proceedings of the Eighth Joint Conference on Knowledge-Based Software Engineering
A study of the non-linear adjustment for analogy based software cost estimation
Empirical Software Engineering
Information and Software Technology
What Are the Significant Cost Drivers for COSMIC Functional Size Based Effort Estimation?
IWSM '09 /Mensura '09 Proceedings of the International Conferences on Software Process and Product Measurement
Improvement Opportunities and Suggestions for Benchmarking
IWSM '09 /Mensura '09 Proceedings of the International Conferences on Software Process and Product Measurement
Empirical Software Engineering
Probabilistic and analytical estimation of software development team size
International Journal of Hybrid Intelligent Systems
Adaptive ridge regression system for software cost estimating on multi-collinear datasets
Journal of Systems and Software
An investigation of using neuro-fuzzy with software size estimation
WOSQ'09 Proceedings of the Seventh ICSE conference on Software quality
Investigating effort prediction of web-based applications using CBR on the ISBSG dataset
EASE'10 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering
A novel fuzzy based approach for effort estimation in software development
ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes
LMES: A localized multi-estimator model to estimate software development effort
Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
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This paper explores the possibility of generating a multi-organisational software cost estimation model by analysing the software cost data collected by the International Software Benchmarking Standards Group. This database contains data about recently developed projects characterised mostly by attributes of categorical nature such as the project business area, organisation type, application domain and usage of certain tools or methods. The generation of the model is based on a statistical technique which has been proposed as alternative to the standard regression approach, namely the categorical regression or regression with optimal scaling. This technique starts with the quantification of the qualitative attributes (expressed either on nominal or ordinal scale), that appear frequently within such data, and proceeds by using the obtained scores as independent variables of a regression model. The generated model is validated by measuring certain indicators of accuracy.