Improvement of effort estimation accuracy in software projects using a feature selection approach

Subject Areas : Data Mining

Zahra Shahpar ¹ , Vahid Khatibi ² , Asma Tanavar ³ , Rahil Sarikhani ⁴

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

Received: 2016-06-06 Accepted : 2016-12-06 Published : 2016-12-01

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