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FAHSCEP: Fuzzy and Analogy Based Hybrid Software Cost Estimation Process
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Estimation models in software engineering are used to predict some important attributes of future entities such as software development effort, software reliability and programmers productivity. Among these models, those estimating software effort have motivated considerable research in recent years. Estimation by analogy is one of the attractive techniques in software effort estimation field. However, the procedure used in estimation by analogy is not yet able to handle correctly categorical data. In this paper, we propose a new approach based on reasoning by analogy, fuzzy logic and linguistic quantifiers to estimate effort when the software project is described either by categorical or numerical data. Fuzzy logic-based cost estimation models are more appropriate when vague and imprecise information is to be accounted for. Fuzzy systems try to behave just like the processes of the brain with a rule base. In our proposed method the effort and the cost can be estimated using the Fuzzy logic based analogy method and the cost can be calculated. The performance of the proposed system is calculated using MARE (Mean Absolute Relative Error).
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