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Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 823437, 8 pages
doi:10.5402/2012/823437
Research Article

Predicting Software Projects Cost Estimation Based on Mining Historical Data

Hassan Najadat,1 Izzat Alsmadi,2 and Yazan Shboul1

1Computer Information Systems Department, Jordan University of Science and Technology, P.O. Box 3030, Irbid 22110, Jordan
2Computer Information Systems Department, Yarmouk University, P.O. Box 566, Irbid 21163, Jordan

Received 18 November 2011; Accepted 16 January 2012

Academic Editors: J. Cao and O. Greevy

Copyright © 2012 Hassan Najadat et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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