f-COCOMO: fuzzy constructive cost model in software engineering

Author

Fei, Zhennan ; Liu, Xindong

Author_Institution

Chinatron Corp., Beijing

fYear

1992

fDate

8-12 Mar 1992

Firstpage

331

Lastpage

337

Abstract

The COCOMO (constructive cost model) was established to improve the economic aspects of software development and management with respect to economic benefit. The fuzzy constructive cost model f-COCOMO is developed to give a more reasonable estimation for manpower and development time of a computer software project. The fuzziness involved in the cost estimation of software engineering is discussed, and its important role is pointed out through analysis of several aspects of COCOMO. The results of tentative applications have shown that more reasonable decision-making can be obtained by incorporating uncertainty treatment of fuzziness with ordinary COCOMO approaches

Keywords

DP management; decision theory; fuzzy set theory; software cost estimation; DP management; computer software project; decision-making; development time; economic benefit; f-COCOMO; fuzziness; fuzzy constructive cost model; management; manpower; software cost estimation; software development; software engineering; uncertainty treatment; Application software; Costs; Decision making; Fuzzy set theory; Natural languages; Paper technology; Programming; Software development management; Software engineering; Software systems; Uncertainty;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Fuzzy Systems, 1992., IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-0236-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/FUZZY.1992.258637

Filename

258637