Determining the proper number and price of software licenses

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 305-315

  Murtojärvi, Mika ^a   Järvinen, Jouni ^a   Johnsson, Mika ^b   Leipälä, Timo ^a   Nevalainen, Olli S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^b Valor Computerized Systems (Finland)   (Finland)

Author keywords

Mathematical modeling; Queuing theory; Simulation; Software release management and delivery

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COSTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; QUEUEING THEORY;

LICENSE PRICES; SOFTWARE LICENSES; SOFTWARE RELEASE MANAGEMENT;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 34247568816     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSE.2007.1003     Document Type: Article

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