Defining complexity factors for the architecture evaluation framework

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn 9, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Mazhelis, Oleksiy ^a   Lehto, Jari A ^b   Markkula, Jouni ^a   Pulkkinen, Mirja ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^b NOKIA SIEMENS NETWORKS   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEXITY FACTORS; INFORMATION SYSTEM; REAL-WORLD ARCHITECTURES;

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; FORMAL LOGIC; ITERATIVE METHODS; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 33749623134     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2006.113     Document Type: Conference Paper

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