An economic model to estimate software rewriting and replacement times

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 580-598

  Chan, Taizan ^a,b   Chung, Siu Leung ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Economic modeling; Optimization; Project management; Software maintenanceysoftware replacement

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346254047     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/32.536958     Document Type: Article

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