A decision aid for the selection and scheduling of software maintenance projects

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part A:Systems and Humans.

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 203-212

  Ballou, Donald P ^a   Tayi, Giri Kumar ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; MAINTENANCE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPERATIONS RESEARCH; PERSONNEL; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SCHEDULING; STRUCTURED PROGRAMMING;

DECISION AID; PROJECT COST; PROJECT UTILITY; SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; SOFTWARE PROJECTS;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0030105753     PISSN: 10834427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3468.485746     Document Type: Article

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