Can genetic programming improve software effort estimation? A comparative evaluation

By C. Burgess, M. Lefley. Information and Software Technology, 2001

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A Survey of Evolutionary Algorithms for Decision-Tree Induction (2012, methodology): “domains, such as software estimation [21], software modules protection [22], and cardiac imaging data [23], in Section VIII.”
Search-based software engineering: Trends, techniques and applications (2012, unknown): “Burgess and Lefley also reported results from the application of GP to software project cost estimation [Burgess and Lefley 2001; Lefley and Shepperd 2003].”
Search Based Software Engineering: A Comprehensive Analysis and Review of Trends Techniques and Applications (2009, methodology): “Burgess and Lefley also report results from the application of GP to software project cost estimation [92, 291].”
The Current State and Future of Search Based Software Engineering (2007, methodology): “Search based optimization techniques have been applied to a number of software engineering activities, right across the life-cycle from requirements engineering [5], project planning and cost estimation [1, 3, 4, 16, 28, 52] through testing [6, 7, 11, 14, 15, 36, 39, 54, 61, 87], to automated mainte”
Search Based Software Engineering: Techniques, Taxonomy, Tutorial (2010, background): “Other authors have also reported interesting applications of search based approaches in software estimation [18, 26, 58].”