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Software Cost Estimation Model Based on Integration of Multi-agent and Case-Based Reasoning

Hasan Al-Sakran

Abstract

Accurate software cost estimation is a vital task that affects the firm's software investment decisions before committing required resources to that project or bidding for a contract. This study proposes an improved Case-Based Reasoning (CBR) approach integrated with multi-agent technology to retrieve similar projects from multi-organizational distributed datasets. The study explores the possibility of building a software cost estimation model by collecting software cost data from distributed predefined project cost databases. The model applying CBR method to find similar projects in historical data derived from measured software projects developed by different organizations.

Journal of Computer Science
Volume 2 No. 3, 2006, 276-282

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3844/jcssp.2006.276.282

Submitted On: 7 September 2005 Published On: 31 March 2006

How to Cite: Al-Sakran, H. (2006). Software Cost Estimation Model Based on Integration of Multi-agent and Case-Based Reasoning . Journal of Computer Science, 2(3), 276-282. https://doi.org/10.3844/jcssp.2006.276.282

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Keywords

  • Mobile agent
  • COCOMO
  • CBR
  • magnitude of relative error