Managing coordination and cooperation in distributed software processes: The GENESIS environment

Software Process Improvement and Practice

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 239-263

  Aversano, Lerina ^a   De Lucia, Andrea ^b   Gaeta, Matteo ^b   Ritrovato, Pierluigi ^b   Stefanucci, Silvio ^a   Villani, Maria Luisa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANNIO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALERNO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Artifact management; Process management; Process modeling; Software process improvement; Workflow management

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERSONNEL; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

ARTIFACT MANAGEMENT; PROCESS MANAGEMENT; PROCESS MODELING; SOFTWARE PROCESS IMPROVEMENT; WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 12344258955     PISSN: 10774866     EISSN: 10991670     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/spip.206     Document Type: Article

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