Estimating time to completion: Uncertain processing times in games

• Main Author: Iqbal A.
• Other Authors: 14012935800
• Format: Conference paper
• Published: 2023
• Subjects: estimate; game; programming; task; time; Computer software; Estimation; Human computer interaction; Interactive computer systems; Mathematical programming; Multimedia systems; User interfaces; Board games; Computer programmers; End-users; Margin of error; Processing time; Uncertain processing; Animation

In this article we propose a method that enables computer programmers to generate an estimate of the time remaining in tasks that have uncertain or theoretically unpredictable processing times. The method uses the real-time mean given the time presently elapsed and the number of task components comp...