Knowledge Management for Building Learning Software Organizations

Information Systems Frontiers

Volumn 2, Issue 3-4, 2000, Pages 349-367

  Althoff, Klaus Dieter ^a   Bomarius, Frank ^a   Tautz, Carsten ^a  

^a FRAUNHOFER IESE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Intelligent retrieval and storage system; Knowledge management; Knowledge representation; Learning software organization; Software domain; Software engineering experience environment

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034549990     PISSN: 13873326     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1026524829553     Document Type: Article

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