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An assessment and comparison of common software cost estimation modeling techniques

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Proceedings of the 21st international conference on Software engineering table of contents

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Pages: 313 - 322

Year of Publication: 1999

ISBN:1-58113-074-0

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Lionel C. Briand	Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental, Software Engineering IESE, Sauerwiesen 6, 67661 Kaiserslautern, Germany
Khaled El Emam	Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental, Software Engineering IESE, Sauerwiesen 6, 67661 Kaiserslautern, Germany
Dagmar Surmann	Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental, Software Engineering IESE, Sauerwiesen 6, 67661 Kaiserslautern, Germany
Isabella Wieczorek	Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental, Software Engineering IESE, Sauerwiesen 6, 67661 Kaiserslautern, Germany
Katrina D. Maxwell	DATAMAX, 14 Ave. F-Roosevelt, 77210 Avon, France

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IEEE-CS : Computer Society
IEEE-CS\TCSE : TC on Software Engineering
SIGADA: ACM Special Interest Group on Ada Programming Language
SIGSOFT: ACM Special Interest Group on Software Engineering
SIGPLAN: ACM Special Interest Group on Programming Languages

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