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Preliminary performance study of a brief review on machine learning techniques for analogy based software effort estimation

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Analogy-based effort estimation is the major task of software engineering which estimates the effort required for new software projects using existing histories for corresponding development and management. In general, the high accuracy of software effort estimation techniques can be a non-solvable problem we named as multi-objective problem. Recently, most of the authors have been used machine learning techniques for the same process however not possible to meet the higher performance. Moreover, existing software effort estimation techniques are mostly affected by bias and subjectivity problems. Analogy based effort estimation (ABE) is the most extensively conventional technique because of its effortlessness and evaluation ability. We define five research questions are defined to get clear thoughts on ABE studies. Improvement of ABE can be done through supervised learning techniques and unsupervised learning techniques. Furthermore, the results can be knowingly affected by the different performance metrics in ABE configuration.

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Kumar, K.H., Srinivas, K. Preliminary performance study of a brief review on machine learning techniques for analogy based software effort estimation. J Ambient Intell Human Comput 14, 2141–2165 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12652-021-03427-y

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