Class information for:
Level 1: SOFTWARE COST ESTIMATION//EFFORT ESTIMATION//SOFTWARE EFFORT ESTIMATION

Basic class information
Class id #P Avg. number of
references		 Database coverage
of references
11152 1004 32.6 31%


Bar chart of Publication_year

Last years might be incomplete

Hierarchy of classes
The table includes all classes above and classes immediately below the current class.


Cluster id Level Cluster label #P
9 4 COMPUTER SCIENCE, THEORY & METHODS//COMPUTER SCIENCE, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE//COMPUTER SCIENCE, INFORMATION SYSTEMS 1247339
148 3       COMPUTER SCIENCE, SOFTWARE ENGINEERING//COMPUTER SCIENCE, THEORY & METHODS//ACM SIGPLAN NOTICES 63683
539 2             COMPUTER SCIENCE, SOFTWARE ENGINEERING//INFORMATION AND SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGY//IEEE SOFTWARE 14738
11152 1                   SOFTWARE COST ESTIMATION//EFFORT ESTIMATION//SOFTWARE EFFORT ESTIMATION 1004

Terms with highest relevance score


rank Term termType Chi square Shr. of publ. in
class containing
term		 Class's shr. of
term's tot. occurrences		 #P with
term in
class
1 SOFTWARE COST ESTIMATION authKW 1467255 6% 86% 56
2 EFFORT ESTIMATION authKW 1459760 6% 80% 60
3 SOFTWARE EFFORT ESTIMATION authKW 1340666 5% 96% 46
4 FUNCTION POINTS authKW 1045592 4% 90% 38
5 COCOMO authKW 462463 2% 72% 21
6 FUNCTIONAL SIZE MEASUREMENT authKW 409759 2% 84% 16
7 FUNCTION POINT ANALYSIS authKW 353878 2% 73% 16
8 SOFTWARE EFFORT PREDICTION authKW 334534 1% 100% 11
9 SOFTWARE ESTIMATION authKW 302327 1% 76% 13
10 SOFTWARE SIZE ESTIMATION authKW 276472 1% 91% 10

Web of Science journal categories


Rank Term Chi square Shr. of publ. in
class containing
term		 Class's shr. of
term's tot. occurrences		 #P with
term in
class
1 Computer Science, Software Engineering 92263 70% 0% 699
2 Computer Science, Information Systems 7501 23% 0% 228
3 Computer Science, Theory & Methods 7385 24% 0% 240
4 Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence 1909 12% 0% 119
5 Computer Science, Hardware & Architecture 1188 6% 0% 64
6 Management 1036 7% 0% 74
7 Engineering, Electrical & Electronic 625 17% 0% 168
8 Information Science & Library Science 456 4% 0% 36
9 Operations Research & Management Science 368 5% 0% 48
10 Engineering, Industrial 151 2% 0% 24

Address terms


Rank Term Chi square Shr. of publ. in
class containing
term		 Class's shr. of
term's tot. occurrences		 #P with
term in
class
1 SOFTWARE PROJECTS MANAGEMENT TEAM 121649 0% 100% 4
2 CUCEA 62082 1% 29% 7
3 CIENCIAS INGN FIS FORMALES 60824 0% 100% 2
4 TERR VILLA CLARA 60824 0% 100% 2
5 ZT SE 3 60824 0% 100% 2
6 EMPIR SOFTWARE ENGN GRP 57615 1% 32% 6
7 INTERNET SOFTWARE TECHNOL 51208 1% 21% 8
8 CHAIR BUSINESS ADM ESP E FINANCE SERV SCI 40548 0% 67% 2
9 COMP SCI COMPUTAT 40548 0% 67% 2
10 INFORMAT SYST SYST DEV 40548 0% 67% 2

Journals


Rank Term Chi square Shr. of publ. in
class containing
term		 Class's shr. of
term's tot. occurrences		 #P with
term in
class
1 INFORMATION AND SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGY 196912 13% 5% 126
2 JOURNAL OF SYSTEMS AND SOFTWARE 149053 13% 4% 133
3 EMPIRICAL SOFTWARE ENGINEERING 100423 4% 9% 38
4 SOFTWARE QUALITY JOURNAL 75380 3% 7% 34
5 IEEE SOFTWARE 69674 6% 4% 62
6 IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SOFTWARE ENGINEERING 68115 8% 3% 80
7 INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SOFTWARE ENGINEERING AND KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING 26042 3% 3% 29
8 JOURNAL OF SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE AND EVOLUTION-RESEARCH AND PRACTICE 20442 1% 6% 12
9 IET SOFTWARE 18777 1% 4% 14
10 JOURNAL OF SOFTWARE-EVOLUTION AND PROCESS 16137 1% 4% 12

Author Key Words


Rank Term Chi square Shr. of publ. in
class containing
term		 Class's shr. of
term's tot. occurrences		 #P with
term in
class		 LCSH search Wikipedia search
1 SOFTWARE COST ESTIMATION 1467255 6% 86% 56 Search SOFTWARE+COST+ESTIMATION Search SOFTWARE+COST+ESTIMATION
2 EFFORT ESTIMATION 1459760 6% 80% 60 Search EFFORT+ESTIMATION Search EFFORT+ESTIMATION
3 SOFTWARE EFFORT ESTIMATION 1340666 5% 96% 46 Search SOFTWARE+EFFORT+ESTIMATION Search SOFTWARE+EFFORT+ESTIMATION
4 FUNCTION POINTS 1045592 4% 90% 38 Search FUNCTION+POINTS Search FUNCTION+POINTS
5 COCOMO 462463 2% 72% 21 Search COCOMO Search COCOMO
6 FUNCTIONAL SIZE MEASUREMENT 409759 2% 84% 16 Search FUNCTIONAL+SIZE+MEASUREMENT Search FUNCTIONAL+SIZE+MEASUREMENT
7 FUNCTION POINT ANALYSIS 353878 2% 73% 16 Search FUNCTION+POINT+ANALYSIS Search FUNCTION+POINT+ANALYSIS
8 SOFTWARE EFFORT PREDICTION 334534 1% 100% 11 Search SOFTWARE+EFFORT+PREDICTION Search SOFTWARE+EFFORT+PREDICTION
9 SOFTWARE ESTIMATION 302327 1% 76% 13 Search SOFTWARE+ESTIMATION Search SOFTWARE+ESTIMATION
10 SOFTWARE SIZE ESTIMATION 276472 1% 91% 10 Search SOFTWARE+SIZE+ESTIMATION Search SOFTWARE+SIZE+ESTIMATION

Core articles
The table includes core articles in the class. The following variables is taken into account for the relevance score of an article in a cluster c:
(1) Number of references referring to publications in the class.
(2) Share of total number of active references referring to publications in the class.
(3) Age of the article. New articles get higher score than old articles.
(4) Citation rate, normalized to year.


Rank Reference # ref. in
cl.		 Shr. of ref. in
cl.		 Citations
1 JORGENSEN, M , SHEPPERD, M , (2007) A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW OF SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT COST ESTIMATION STUDIES.IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SOFTWARE ENGINEERING. VOL. 33. ISSUE 1. P. 33 -53 179 80% 242
2 WEN, JF , LI, SX , LIN, ZY , HU, Y , HUANG, CQ , (2012) SYSTEMATIC LITERATURE REVIEW OF MACHINE LEARNING BASED SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT EFFORT ESTIMATION MODELS.INFORMATION AND SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGY. VOL. 54. ISSUE 1. P. 41 -59 67 88% 44
3 HUANG, JL , LI, YF , XIE, M , (2015) AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF DATA PREPROCESSING FOR MACHINE LEARNING-BASED SOFTWARE COST ESTIMATION.INFORMATION AND SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGY. VOL. 67. ISSUE . P. 108 -127 50 91% 1
4 IDRI, A , AMAZAL, FA , ABRAN, A , (2015) ANALOGY-BASED SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT EFFORT ESTIMATION: A SYSTEMATIC MAPPING AND REVIEW.INFORMATION AND SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGY. VOL. 58. ISSUE . P. 206 -230 34 97% 5
5 KLAS, M , TRENDOWICZ, A , WICKENKAMP, A , MUNCH, J , KIKUCHI, N , ISHIGAI, Y , (2008) THE USE OF SIMULATION TECHNIQUES FOR HYBRID SOFTWARE COST ESTIMATION AND RISK ANALYSIS.ADVANCES IN COMPUTERS, VOL 74. VOL. 74. ISSUE . P. 115 -174 44 92% 2
6 BARDSIRI, VK , JAWAWI, DNA , KHATIBI, E , (2014) TOWARDS IMPROVEMENT OF ANALOGY-BASED SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT EFFORT ESTIMATION: A REVIEW.INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SOFTWARE ENGINEERING AND KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING. VOL. 24. ISSUE 7. P. 1065 -1089 35 97% 1
7 IDRI, A , HOSNI, M , ABRAN, A , (2016) IMPROVED ESTIMATION OF SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT EFFORT USING CLASSICAL AND FUZZY ANALOGY ENSEMBLES.APPLIED SOFT COMPUTING. VOL. 49. ISSUE . P. 990 -1019 42 75% 0
8 BARDSIRI, VK , JAWAWI, DNA , HASHIM, SZM , KHATIBI, E , (2014) A FLEXIBLE METHOD TO ESTIMATE THE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT EFFORT BASED ON THE CLASSIFICATION OF PROJECTS AND LOCALIZATION OF COMPARISONS.EMPIRICAL SOFTWARE ENGINEERING. VOL. 19. ISSUE 4. P. 857 -884 32 94% 4
9 LI, YF , XIE, M , GOH, TN , (2009) A STUDY OF THE NON-LINEAR ADJUSTMENT FOR ANALOGY BASED SOFTWARE COST ESTIMATION.EMPIRICAL SOFTWARE ENGINEERING. VOL. 14. ISSUE 6. P. 603 -643 34 89% 26
10 WHIGHAM, PA , OWEN, CA , MACDONELL, SG , (2015) A BASELINE MODEL FOR SOFTWARE EFFORT ESTIMATION.ACM TRANSACTIONS ON SOFTWARE ENGINEERING AND METHODOLOGY. VOL. 24. ISSUE 3. P. - 28 97% 0

Classes with closest relation at Level 1


Rank Class id link
1 2087 SOFTWARE METRICS//SOFTWARE QUALITY//DEFECT PREDICTION
2 16838 INFORMATION SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT//REQUIREMENTS UNCERTAINTY//INFORMATION SYSTEMS FAILURE
3 3715 SOFTWARE PROCESS IMPROVEMENT//AGILE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT//GLOBAL SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT
4 24246 CFPRF//CFRF//RECURSIVE FUNCTIONS OF CONTEXT FREE LANGUAGES
5 20810 ADA CODE//DESIGN LEVEL DOCUMENTS//NOTAT ENGN
6 25002 CASE IMPLEMENTATION//CASE ADOPTION//AUTOMATED SOFTWARE EVALUATION
7 8845 PROGRAM COMPREHENSION//SOFTWARE REUSE//FEATURE LOCATION
8 28522 SOFTWARE ENGINEERING EDUCATION//MEETINGS FLOW//SOFTWARE ENGINEERING CURRICULA
9 34117 CHINESE HEALTHCARE ORGANISATION//CHINESE HEALTHCARE SYSTEMS//COMP SOFTWARE ENG
10 24260 COTS SELECTION//COTS INTEGRATION//COTS PRODUCTS

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