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  title info:
    title: Practitioner's Knowledge Representation
    sub title: A Pathway to Improve Software Effort Estimation
  name:
    name part: Mendes, Emilia.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2014
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XI, 211 p. 84 illus. online resource.
  abstract: The main goal of this book is to help organizations improve their effort estimates and effort estimation processes by providing a step-by-step methodology that takes them through the creation and validation of models that are based on their own knowledge and experience. Such models, once validated, can then be used to obtain predictions, carry out risk analyses, enhance their estimation processes for new projects, and generally advance them as learning organizations. Emilia Mendes presents the Expert-Based Knowledge Engineering of Bayesian Networks (EKEBNs) methodology, which she has used and adapted during the course of several industry collaborations with different companies world-wide over more than 6 years. The book itself consists of two major parts: first, the methodology’s foundations in knowledge management, effort estimation (with special emphasis on the intricacies of software and Web development), and Bayesian networks are detailed; then six industry case studies are presented which illustrate the practical use of EKEBNs. Domain experts from each company participated in the elicitation of the bespoke models for effort estimation, and all models were built employing the widely-used Netica ™ tool. This part is rounded off with a chapter summarizing the experiences with the methodology and the derived models. Practitioners working on software project management, software process quality, or effort estimation and risk analysis in general will find a thorough introduction into an industry-proven methodology as well as numerous experiences, tips and possible pitfalls invaluable for their daily work.
  table of contents: Chapter 1: Introduction to knowledge management -- Chapter 2: Web development vs. software development -- Chapter 3: Introduction to effort estimation -- Chapter 4: Literature review on Web effort estimation -- Chapter 5: Introduction to Bayesian network models -- Chapter 6: Expert-based knowledge engineering of Bayesian networks -- Chapter 7: First case study -- Chapter 8: Second case study -- Chapter 9: Third case study -- Chapter 10: Fourth case study -- Chapter 11: Fifth case study -- Chapter 12: Sixth case study -- Chapter 13: Ways in which to use Bayesian network models within a company -- Chapter 14: Conclusions.
  note: by Emilia Mendes.
  subject:
    topic: Computer science
  subject:
    topic: Project management
  subject:
    topic: Knowledge management
  subject:
    topic: Software engineering
  subject:
    topic: Mathematical statistics
  subject:
    topic: Artificial intelligence
  subject:
    topic: Management information systems
  subject:
    topic: Computer Science
  subject:
    topic: Software Engineering
  subject:
    topic: Probability and Statistics in Computer Science
  subject:
    topic: Project Management
  subject:
    topic: Management of Computing and Information Systems
  subject:
    topic: Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics)
  subject:
    topic: Knowledge Management
  classification: QA76.758
  classification: 005.1
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      title: Springer eBooks
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