@article{1753, author = {B V Ajay Prakash, D V Ashoka, V N Manjunath Aradhya}, title = {An Exploration of PNN and GRNN Models For Efficient Software Development Effort Estimation}, journal = {Journal of Information Technology Review}, year = {2015}, volume = {6}, number = {2}, doi = {}, url = {}, abstract = {Increasing demand for software made IT industries to develop high quality software within predetermined time and budget. In order to accomplish these challenges, the software development process needs to effectively managed and planned. In software development process, effort estimation is very important activity to manage and plan for effective development of software projects. If estimation of software development effort is not accurately measured then entire software project may lead to failure and dissipate the IT industry budget. Machine learning and data mining techniques have been explored as an alternative to existing model COCOMO. This paper aims to explore artificial neural network models such as probabilistic neural networks (PNN) and generalized regression neural networks (GRNN) model on various datasets to accurately estimate the software development effort. The results are evaluated using Mean Magnitude of Relative Error (MMRE), Magnitude of Relative Error (MRE).}, }