Behavioural modelling of long-lived evolution processes - Some issues and an example

Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 335-351

  Lehman, Manny M ^a   Kahen, Goel ^a   Ramil, Juan Fernández ^b  

^a MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Complexity; Feedback; Laws of software evolution; Process improvement; Resource estimation; System dynamics

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; DECISION MAKING; ESTIMATION; FEEDBACK; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

SYSTEM DYNAMICS;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0036760667     PISSN: 1532060X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/smr.259     Document Type: Article

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