Recent advances in software estimation techniques
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Proceedings of the Second ACM-IEEE international symposium on Empirical software engineering and measurement
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Refining the systematic literature review process--two participant-observer case studies
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Comparison of weighted grey relational analysis for software effort estimation
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A controlled experiment in assessing and estimating software maintenance tasks
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A principled evaluation of ensembles of learning machines for software effort estimation
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Systematic mapping studies in software engineering
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Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Predictive Models in Software Engineering
Alternative methods using similarities in software effort estimation
Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Predictive Models in Software Engineering
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Functional Link Artificial Neural Networks for Software Cost Estimation
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Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering
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Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering
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Software effort models should be assessed via leave-one-out validation
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Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Predictive Models in Software Engineering
Software development cost estimation using similarity difference between software attributes
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Empirical Software Engineering
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ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Software effort estimation as a multiobjective learning problem
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Grey relational effort analysis technique using robust regression methods for individual projects
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ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes
IMPROVING THE PREDICTION ACCURACY OF SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT COST MODELS
Journal of Integrated Design & Process Science
Information and Software Technology
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This paper aims to provide a basis for the improvement of software estimation research through a systematic review of previous work. The review identifies 304 software cost estimation papers in 76 journals and classifies the papers according to research topic, estimation approach, research approach, study context and data set. A Web-based library of these cost estimation papers is provided to ease the identification of relevant estimation research results. The review results combined with other knowledge provide support for recommendations for future software cost estimation research, including 1) increase the breadth of the search for relevant studies, 2) search manually for relevant papers within a carefully selected set of journals when completeness is essential, 3) conduct more studies on estimation methods commonly used by the software industry, and 4) increase the awareness of how properties of the data sets impact the results when evaluating estimation methods.