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This research proposes a new approach which is based on Cuckoo Search algorithm for the prediction of software development effort. It uses Cuckoo Search for discovering the best possible parameters of COCOMO II model and then further hybridizes with ANN for increasing the accuracy to better predict the software development effort. The proposed hybrid models have been tested on two standard datasets. During experimentation, it has been seen that the proposed hybrid models provide more accurate and effective results than other existing models. The result has been analyzed with MMRE and three different types of PRED 25, 30 and 40% that shows the efficiency and capability of the proposed hybrid models. A comparative study of computational complexity with other existing approach has also been done which shows the superiority of the proposed model over existing approaches.
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This research is partially supported by UGC, India (Grant no.-F./2015-16/NFO-2015-17-OBC-BIH-33244 (SA-III/Website)).
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Kumari, S., Pushkar, S. Cuckoo search based hybrid models for improving the accuracy of software effort estimation. Microsyst Technol 24, 4767–4774 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00542-018-3871-9
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