Abstract—Engineering cannot wait until all phenomena are explained. Engineers may work effectively, often for centuries, with heuristics. This paper provides thirty one heuristic...
This paper explores the cognitive limits of estimation in the context of software cost estimation. Two heuristics, representativeness and anchoring, motivate two experiments invol...
We propose a troubleshooting algorithm that can troubleshoot systems with dependent action costs. When actions are performed they may change the way the system is decomposed and af...
Introducing enterprise information systems (EIS) is usually associated with high costs. It is therefore crucial to understand those factors that determine or influence these costs....
This paper addresses the problem of estimating cost and development effort of a system, starting from its complete or partial high-level description. In addition, some modificatio...
William Fornaciari, Fabio Salice, Umberto Bondi, E...