FULSOME: a fuzzy logic modeling tool for software metricians
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...Both COCOMO and SLIM take number of lines of code (about which least is known very early in the project) as the major input to their models....
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...Our own work (Gray and MacDonell 1997b; MacDonell et al. 1999) has similarly indicated the applicability of fuzzy logic methods to this domain – one of the aims of the work described here is to provide empirical evidence in support of this....
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...We used our TEST samples to assess the predictive accuracy of the models, first by applying our regression models and then using the FUzzy Logic for SOftware MEtrics (FULSOME) module of FUZZYMANAGER to produce first-cut estimates of SIZE....
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...Our own work (Gray and MacDonell 1997b; MacDonell et al. 1999) has similarly indicated the applicability of fuzzy logic methods to this domain – one of the aims of the work described here is to provide empirical evidence in support of this....
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...We used the BUILD sample to develop complementary predictive models, using standard linear regression and fuzzy logic modeling (via our toolset FUZZYMANAGER (MacDonell et al. 1999))....
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...The clustering and rule extraction activities were undertaken using the CLUESOME (CLUster Extraction for SOftware MEtrics) component of our FUZZYMANAGER toolset (MacDonell et al. 1999)....
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...One of the major researches into fuzzy logic application to cost estimation is that of MacDonell et al.[21]....
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...FULSOME was developed [20, 21, 22] using fuzzy logic to help software metricians in data acquisition, model expression and knowledge gathering issues....
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"FULSOME: a fuzzy logic modeling too..." refers background in this paper
...Software metrics is the field of research and practice that involves investigating the characteristics of and relationships between sets of attributes associated with software development projects, usually in terms of products, processes, and resources [1]....
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...Even once sufficient quantities of data are available, data purity is generally difficult to ascertain – necessitating some treatment of unusual observations [4]....
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"FULSOME: a fuzzy logic modeling too..." refers background in this paper
...Fuzzy logic has recently gained a greater amount of attention in the software metrics literature as a means for solving some of these long-standing problems [2, 3]....
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