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COMPSAC
1999
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
A Framework for Top-Down Cost Estimation of Software Development
The Function Point Method, estimation by analogy, and algorithmic modeling are three of the most commonly applied methods used to estimate the costs and worker hours neededfor a s...
Tsuneo Yamaura, Tohru Kikuno
FOIKS
2008
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
Autonomous Sets - A Method for Hypergraph Decomposition with Applications in Database Theory
We present a method for decomposing a hypergraph with certain regularities into smaller hypergraphs. By applying this to the set of all canonical covers of a given set of functiona...
Henning Köhler
ADBIS
2010
Springer
173views Database» more  ADBIS 2010»
13 years 6 months ago
Applying the UFO Ontology to Design an Agent-Oriented Engineering Language
The problem of designing suitable conceptual modeling languages for system engineering is far from being solved. In the past years, some works have proposed the use of foundational...
Renata S. S. Guizzardi, Giancarlo Guizzardi
EUSFLAT
2001
130views Fuzzy Logic» more  EUSFLAT 2001»
13 years 7 months ago
Autonomous robot behaviours for co-operative agents using fuzzy logic and subtractive clustering
Intelligent autonomous robots and multiagent systems, having different skills and capabilities for specific subtasks, have the potential to solve problems more efficiently and eff...
Alexandros Mouzakitis, Geoff Roberts
SIGSOFT
1995
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
An Experiment to Assess the Cost-Benefits of Code Inspections in Large Scale Software Development
—We conducted a long-term experiment to compare the costs and benefits of several different software inspection methods. These methods were applied by professional developers to ...
Adam A. Porter, Harvey P. Siy, Carol A. Toman, Law...