Experimental Evaluation of Algorithmic Effort Estimation Models using Projects Clustering

Subject Areas : Data Mining

Farzaneh Famoori ¹ , Vahid Khatibi bardsiri ² , Shima Javadi Moghadam ³ , Fakhrosadat Fanian ⁴

1 - Department of Computer Engineering, Islamic Azad University, Kerman Branch. Kerman, Iran.
2 - Department of Computer Engineering, Islamic Azad University, Kerman Branch
3 - Department of Computer Engineering, Islamic Azad University, Kerman Branch, Krman, Iran.
4 - Department of Computer Engineering, Islamic Azad University, Kerman Branch, Kerman Iran.

Received: 2016-05-07 Accepted : 2016-08-10 Published : 2016-08-01

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