COTS acquisition process: Incorporating business factors in COTS vendor evaluation taxonomy

Proceedings - International Software Metrics Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 84-95

  Yeoh, Hean Chin ^a   Miller, James ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS METRICS; COMMERCIAL-OFF-THE-SHELF (COTS) COMPONENTS; RISK MITIGATION STRATEGY; VENDOR EVALUATION TAXONOMY;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COSTS; INTEGRATION; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; MARKETING; RISK ASSESSMENT;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 14844330730     PISSN: 15301435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/METRIC.2004.1357893     Document Type: Conference Paper

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