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Software Cost Estimation using Fuzzy Logic

Published on April 2012 by Ravishankar. S, P. Latha
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International Conference in Recent trends in Computational Methods, Communication and Controls
Foundation of Computer Science USA
ICON3C - Number 7
April 2012
Authors: Ravishankar. S, P. Latha
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Ravishankar. S, P. Latha . Software Cost Estimation using Fuzzy Logic. International Conference in Recent trends in Computational Methods, Communication and Controls. ICON3C, 7 (April 2012), 38-42.

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author = { Ravishankar. S, P. Latha },
title = { Software Cost Estimation using Fuzzy Logic },
journal = { International Conference in Recent trends in Computational Methods, Communication and Controls },
issue_date = { April 2012 },
volume = { ICON3C },
number = { 7 },
month = { April },
year = { 2012 },
issn = 0975-8887,
pages = { 38-42 },
numpages = 5,
url = { /proceedings/icon3c/number7/6055-1056/ },
publisher = {Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA},
address = {New York, USA}
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%1 International Conference in Recent trends in Computational Methods, Communication and Controls
%A Ravishankar. S
%A P. Latha
%T Software Cost Estimation using Fuzzy Logic
%J International Conference in Recent trends in Computational Methods, Communication and Controls
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%V ICON3C
%N 7
%P 38-42
%D 2012
%I International Journal of Computer Applications
Abstract

The process of estimating time and cost required for developing software is called software cost estimation. It is one of the steps to be carried out in project planning. Early software estimation models are based on regression analysis or mathematical derivations. Today's models are based on simulation, neural network, genetic algorithm, soft computing, fuzzy logic modeling etc. This paper aims to utilise an adaptive fuzzy logic model to improve the accuracy of software time and cost estimation. Using advantages of fuzzy set and fuzzy logic can produce accurate software attributes which result in precise software estimates. 63 Historic projects of NASA dataset having COCOMO format is used in the evaluation of the proposed Fuzzy Logic COCOMO II. Eight membership functions available in fuzzy logic are used and a comparison is made to find out which membership function yields better result in terms of Mean Magnitude of Relative Error (MMRE) and PRED (25%).

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Index Terms

Computer Science
Information Sciences

Keywords

Software Cost Estimation Models Cocomo Ii Soft Computation Techniques Fuzzy Logic Membership Function Mean Relative Error Pred (25%).