An Experiment on the Design of Radial Basis Function Neural Networks for Software Cost Estimation

A. Idri, A. Abran, S. Mbarki
2006 2nd International Conference on Information & Communication Technologies  
This paper is concerned with the use of Radial Basis Function (RBF) neural networks for software cost estimation. The study is devoted to the design of these networks, especially their middle layer composed of receptive fields, using two clustering techniques: the Cmeans and the APC-III algorithms. A comparison between an RBFN using C-means and an RBFN using APC-III, in terms of estimates accuracy, is hence presented. This study is based on the COCOMO'81 dataset.
doi:10.1109/ictta.2006.1684625 fatcat:i5jm6r72xbetfemiqcb7uppj7u