SBIR/STTR Research Award
COST PRODUCTION TECHNIQUE FOR SOFTWARE
Award amount
$351,000Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
1986Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Navy
- Recipient company
- AMERIGENICS, INC.
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- Not reported
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- Not reported
Research abstract
BY IDENTIFYING THE HEURISTICS USED BY EXPERT ESTIMATORS TO DRAW ANALOGIES AND MAKE INFERENCES FROM HISTORICAL DATA AND KNOWLEDGE OF THE DEVELOPMENT PROCESS, AND BY IDENTIFYING AND, TO THE EXTENT POSSIBLE, QUANTIFYING THOSE CRITICAL PARAMETERS THAT DRIVE SOFTWARE, AN "EXPERT SOFTWARE COST ESTIMATING ASSISTANT" WILL BE PRODUCED. IT WILLBE BASED ON INNOVATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) AND KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING TECHNIQUES AND WILL ENABLE AN ESTIMATOR TO DRAW ON STORED EXPERIENCE AND ARRIVE AT A REASONABLE COST ESTIMATE WITH ALL ASSUMPTIONS INCLUDED.
Technology keywords
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