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Functional Link Artificial Neural Networks for Software Cost Estimation

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  • B. Tirimula Rao

    (Anil Neeruknoda Institute of Technology and Sciences, India)

  • Satchidananda Dehuri

    (Fakir Mohan University, India)

  • Rajib Mall

    (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India)

Abstract

Software cost estimation is the process of predicting the effort required to develop a software system. Software development projects often overrun their planned effort as defined at preliminary design review. Software cost estimation is important for budgeting, risk analysis, project planning, and software improvement analysis. In this paper, the authors propose a faster functional link artificial neural network (FLANN) based software cost estimation. By means of preprocessing, i.e., optimal reduced datasets (ORD), the authors make the functional link artificial neural network faster. Optimal reduced datasets, which reduce the whole project base into small subsets that consist of only representative projects. The representative projects are given as input to FLANN and tested on eight state-of-the-art polynomial expansions. The proposed methods are validated on five real time datasets. This approach yields accurate results vis-à-vis conventional FLANN, support vector machine regression (SVR), radial basis function (RBF), classification, and regression trees (CART).

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  • B. Tirimula Rao & Satchidananda Dehuri & Rajib Mall, 2012. "Functional Link Artificial Neural Networks for Software Cost Estimation," International Journal of Applied Evolutionary Computation (IJAEC), IGI Global, vol. 3(2), pages 62-82, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:igg:jaec00:v:3:y:2012:i:2:p:62-82
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    1. Anupama Kaushik & Niyati Singal & Malvika Prasad, 2022. "Incorporating whale optimization algorithm with deep belief network for software development effort estimation," International Journal of System Assurance Engineering and Management, Springer;The Society for Reliability, Engineering Quality and Operations Management (SREQOM),India, and Division of Operation and Maintenance, Lulea University of Technology, Sweden, vol. 13(4), pages 1637-1651, August.
    2. Ajit Kumar Behera & Mrutyunjaya Panda & Satchidananda Dehuri, 2021. "Software reliability prediction by recurrent artificial chemical link network," International Journal of System Assurance Engineering and Management, Springer;The Society for Reliability, Engineering Quality and Operations Management (SREQOM),India, and Division of Operation and Maintenance, Lulea University of Technology, Sweden, vol. 12(6), pages 1308-1321, December.

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