The structure and value of modularity in software design

Proceedings of the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 99-108

  Sullivan, Kevin J ^a   Griswold, William G ^b   Cai, Yuanfang ^a   Hallen, Ben ^a  

^a University of Virginia   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Design structure matrix; Modularity; Real options; Software

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; COMPUTER SOFTWARE REUSABILITY; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; PRODUCT DESIGN;

SOFTWARE DESIGN; SOFTWARE MODULARITY;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0035783661     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/503209.503224     Document Type: Conference Paper

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