期刊名称：International Journal of Computer Science and Information Technologies
电子版ISSN：0975-9646
出版年度：2011
卷号：2
期号：4
页码：1675-1678
出版社：TechScience Publications
摘要：Software development effort prediction is one of the most challenging activities in software project management. There are several cost/effort estimation models which have been proposed over the years and still no model can accurately estimate the effort required to develop the software product. Each method has their own pros and cons in estimating development cost and effort. Estimation of efforts in the early stages is all the more difficult and that is because project data, available in the early stages of project is often incomplete, inconsistent, uncertain and unclear. Although data is incomplete and inconsistent but then also there are enough information present which makes it possible to estimate the effort at early stages. The advantage is that, if we can predict the effort at the early stages say, at the design phase itself, then the project manager can provide better estimates and based on that an efficient schedule can be developed so as to complete the project well within budget and time. Soft computing techniques are gaining popularity for predicting software development effort estimations. In this paper we have tried to predict the effort estimations using Mamdani Fuzzy Inference System (FIS) using fuzzy Triangular (trimf) MF. The results were analyzed using MRE evaluation criteria. The need for accurate effort prediction in software project management is still a challenge for researchers world over.
关键词：Software Development Effort; MRE; Mamdani FIS;Membership Functions; Fuzzy Rulesn.tion.
