Search-based techniques applied to optimization of project planning for a massive maintenance project

IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance, ICSM

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 240-252

  Antoniol, Giulio ^a   Penta, Massimiliano Di ^a   Harman, Mark ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANNIO   (Italy)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Massive Remedial Maintenance; Search Based Software Engineering

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); GENETIC ALGORITHMS; OPTIMIZATION; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SIMULATED ANNEALING;

MAINTENANCE PROJECTS; MASSIVE REMEDIAL MAINTENANCE; PLANNING RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SEARCH-BASED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE;

EID: 33646932705     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSM.2005.79     Document Type: Conference Paper

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