Decision support for handling mismatches between COTS products and system requirements

Proceedings - ICCBSS 2007: Sixth International IEEE Conference on Commercial-off-the-Shelf (COTS)-Based Software Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 63-72

  Mohamed, Abdallah ^a   Ruhe, Guenther ^a   Eberlein, Armin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF SHARJAH   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PATTERN MATCHING; RISK ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE PACKAGES;

COMMERCIAL-OFF-THE-SHELF (COTS); E-SERVICES DOMAIN; HANDLING MISMATCHING;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 34547245541     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICCBSS.2007.13     Document Type: Conference Paper

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