Empirical study of industrial decision making for software modernizations

2005 International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering, ISESE 2005

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 235-244

  Koskinen, Jussi ^a   Lintinen, Heikki ^a   Ahonen, Jarmo J ^b   Tilus, Tero ^a   Sivula, Henna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; DECISION MAKING; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT;

ECONOMICAL EVALUATION; SOFTWARE INDUSTRY; SOFTWARE MODERNIZATIONS; TOOL SUPPORT;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 33749063610     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISESE.2005.1541832     Document Type: Conference Paper

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