Practitioner's Knowledge Representation A Pathway to Improve Software Effort Estimation /

• Main Author: Mendes, Emilia (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Subjects: Computer science.; Project management.; Knowledge management.; Software engineering.; Mathematical statistics.; Artificial intelligence.; Management information systems.; Computer Science.; Software Engineering.; Probability and Statistics in Computer Science.; Project Management.; Management of Computing and Information Systems.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).; Knowledge Management.

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,...

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.