Software product and process assessment through profile-based evaluation

International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 495-512

  Morisio, Maurizio ^a   Stamelos, Ioannis ^b   Tsoukias, Alexis ^c  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DAUPHINE   (France)

Author keywords

Multiple criteria decision aiding; Quality models; Software evaluation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE REUSABILITY; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; SEMANTICS;

MULTIPLE CRITERIA DECISION AIDING; PROFILE BASED EVALUATION; QUALITY MODELS; SOFTWARE PROCESS ASSESSMENT; SOFTWARE PRODUCT ASSESSMENT;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0348146379     PISSN: 02181940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218194003001433     Document Type: Article

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