Document Type

Thesis

Date of Award

5-31-1988

Degree Name

Master of Science in Management - (M.S.)

Department

Organizational and Social Sciences

First Advisor

Gordon Kalley

Abstract

This paper describes a model that can be used to assist engineers and managers in estimating the cost of developing an expert system. Numerous models are available for estimating the cost of developing conventional software systems [1] [2] [3]. However, relatively little work has been done in the area of expert systems cost estimation [3] [4].

Estimating the cost of any software development project is a difficult task, yet software developers are required to provide reliable estimates of the cost of development early in the development life cycle, quite often before many of the system requirements have been defined. While many of the problems encountered in estimating the cost of conventional systems apply equally to expert systems, the development process for expert systems generally does not follow the traditional systems development life cycle. As a result, a unique set of cost estimating techniques must be applied to expert systems in order to achieve accurate and consistent development cost estimai-pg. This paper presents a cost estimating model that attempts to address many of the issues unique to the development of expert systems.

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