IASCE: an intelligent assistant to software cost estimation

Author

Wang, Shouli ; Kountanis, Dionysios

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Western Michigan Univ., Kalamazoo, MI, USA

fYear

1992

fDate

10-13 Nov 1992

Firstpage

114

Lastpage

117

Abstract

A CASE (computer-aided software design) tool called IASCE has been developed to help the project manager estimate a proposed project cost. This tool collects accurate data from current software so that researchers can explore new software models and metrics. IASCE also supports multiple software cost estimation models and their corresponding metrics, tractable for project management control, feedback, and learning activities. In addition, IASCE provides for the establishment of project-specific cost models and corporate metrics for the models, permits tracing of these models and metrics throughout the software life cycle via feedback and post mortem evaluation, and offers a mechanism for long-range improvements of software cost estimation. It can be tailored to a specific software development environment

Keywords

DP management; expert systems; software cost estimation; software tools; CASE; IASCE; corporate metrics; cost models; feedback; intelligent assistant; learning activities; post mortem evaluation; project cost; project management control; project manager; software cost estimation; software development environment; software life cycle; Computer aided software engineering; Computer industry; Computer science; Costs; Feedback; Job shop scheduling; Programming; Project management; Software development management; Software tools;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Tools with Artificial Intelligence, 1992. TAI '92, Proceedings., Fourth International Conference on

Conference_Location

Arlington, VA

Print_ISBN

0-8186-2905-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/TAI.1992.246365

Filename

246365