Incorporating Price Sensitivity Measurement Into the Software Engineering Process

Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 316-323

  Harmon, Robert ^a   Raffo, David ^a   Faulk, Stuart ^b  

^a PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COST EFFECTIVENESS; CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; DECISION MAKING; MARKETING; MEASUREMENT THEORY; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

PRICE SENSITIVITY MEASUREMENT (PSM); VALUE-BASED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING (VBSE);

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 1442352387     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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