Software and Hardware in Data Processing Budgets

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn SE-13, Issue 9, 1987, Pages 1010-1017

  Gurbaxani, Vijay ^a   Mendelson, Haim ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cobb Douglas production function; cost trends; data; economics; processing budgets; programmer productivity; software engineering; substitution and complementarity

Indexed keywords

EID: 0342659893     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSE.1987.233523     Document Type: Article

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