Progress, Obstacles, and Opportunities in Software Engineering Economics

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 41, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 63-66

  Kemerer, Chris F ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENGINEERING RESEARCH; INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING ECONOMICS (SEE);

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0032131535     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/280324.280334     Document Type: Article

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