A Novel ICA-based Estimator for Software Cost Estimation

Subject Areas : Project Management

Behrouz  Sadeghi ¹ (Kerman Branch, Islamic AzadUniversity)
Vahid  Khatibi Bardsiri ² (Kerman Branch, Islamic AzadUniversity)
Monireh  Esfandiari ³ (Kerman Branch, Islamic AzadUniversity)
Farzad  Hosseinzadeh ⁴ (Kerman Branch, Islamic AzadUniversity)

Received: 2015-07-11 Accepted : 2015-10-17 Published : 2015-11-01

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