Title :
Cost Estimation of Simulation Models for the Effectiveness Estimation of Simulation-Based Acquisition
Author :
Hae Young Lee ; Hyung-Jong Kim
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Inf. Security, Seoul Women´s Univ., Seoul, South Korea
Abstract :
In order to estimate the effectiveness of simulation-based acquisition quantitatively, development cost for simulation models should be carefully considered within the estimation. To that end, in this paper, we propose a method for the estimation of development cost for three types of models. For each unit model, its size is computed by size measurement approache (s), and then its development cost is estimated based on the measured size and the unit development cost calculated from past projects. The cost for the whole model can be obtained by tallying up the costs of all unit models. A proof-of-concept tool is currently being developed based on the proposed method.
Keywords :
discrete event simulation; formal specification; software cost estimation; software development management; DESS; DEVS; DTSS; development cost estimation; differential equation system specification; discrete event system specification; discrete time system specification; effectiveness estimation; simulation model cost estimation; simulation-based acquisition; size measurement approach; Analytical models; Computational modeling; Estimation; Mathematical model; Polynomials; Reachability analysis; Size measurement; discrete event system specification; modeling and simulation; simulation-based acquisition; software development effort estimation; software sizing;
Conference_Titel :
Advanced Software Engineering and Its Applications (ASEA), 2014 7th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Haikou
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-7760-4
DOI :
10.1109/ASEA.2014.9