Software economics: status and prospects

Information and Software Technology

Volumn 41, Issue 14, 1999, Pages 937-946

  Boehm, B ^a   Sullivan, K ^a  

^a University of Southern California   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS; LINEARIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEURAL NETWORKS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

COMPOSITE BAYESIAN METHODS; COST ESTIMATION; SOFTWARE ECONOMICS;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0033351898     PISSN: 09505849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0950-5849(99)00091-9     Document Type: Article

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