The role of systematic reviews in identifying the state of the art in web resource estimation

The goal of this position paper is to motivate the importance of SRs, and to present a SR of Web resource estimation. The SR results suggest that there is plenty of work to be done in the field of Web resource estimation whether it be investigating a more comprehensive approach that considers more than a single resource facet, evaluating other possible resource predictors, or trying to determine guidelines that would help simplify the process of selecting a resource estimation technique.

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