A DEA framework to assess the efficiency of the software requirements capture and analysis process

Decision Sciences

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 503-531

  Chatzoglou, Prodromos D ^a   Soteriou, Andreas C ^b  

^a TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF KAVALA   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

Data envelopment analysis; Requirements capture and analysis; Software development

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039523252     PISSN: 00117315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5915.1999.tb01620.x     Document Type: Article

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