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ICSE
2005
IEEE-ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Validation methods for calibrating software effort models
COCONUT calibrates effort estimation models using an exhaustive search over the space of calibration parameters in a COCOMO I model. This technique is much simpler than other effo...
Tim Menzies, Daniel Port, Zhihao Chen, Jairus Hihn...
JUCS
2008
155views more  JUCS 2008»
13 years 7 months ago
Dynamic Bandwidth Pricing: Provision Cost, Market Size, Effective Bandwidths and Price Games
Abstract: Nowadays, in the markets of broadband access services, traditional contracts are of "static" type. Customers buy the right to use a specific amount of resources...
Sergios Soursos, Costas Courcoubetis, Richard R. W...
GECCO
2010
Springer
244views Optimization» more  GECCO 2010»
13 years 8 months ago
Implicit fitness and heterogeneous preferences in the genetic algorithm
This paper takes an economic approach to derive an evolutionary learning model based entirely on the endogenous employment of genetic operators in the service of self-interested a...
Justin T. H. Smith
MMB
2010
Springer
194views Communications» more  MMB 2010»
14 years 17 days ago
Searching for Tight Performance Bounds in Feed-Forward Networks
Abstract. Computing tight performance bounds in feed-forward networks under general assumptions about arrival and server models has turned out to be a challenging problem. Recently...
Andreas Kiefer, Nicos Gollan, Jens B. Schmitt
ESEM
2008
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
A constrained regression technique for cocomo calibration
Building cost estimation models is often considered a search problem in which the solver should return an optimal solution satisfying an objective function. This solution also nee...
Vu Nguyen, Bert Steece, Barry W. Boehm