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The software stage-effort estimation can be used to dynamically adjust software project schedule, further to help make the project finished on budget. This paper presents a grey model Verhulst based method for stage-effort estimation during software development process, a bias correction technology was used to improve the estimation accuracy. The proposed method was evaluated with a large-scale industrial software engineering database. The results are very encouraging and indicate the method has considerable potential.
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Foundation item: Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (60673124), the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China (863 Program)(2006AA01Z183).
Biography: WANG Yong(1971–), male, Ph.D. candidate, research direction: software engineering and data mining.
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Wang, Y., Song, Q. & Shen, J. Grey prediction based software stage-effort estimation. Wuhan Univ. J. of Nat. Sci. 12, 927–931 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11859-007-0015-y
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