Predicting return-on-investment for product line generations

Proceedings - 10th International Software Product Line Conference, SPLC 2006

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 13-22

  Ganesan, Dharmalingam ^a   Muthig, Dirk ^a   Yoshimura, Kentaro ^b  

^a FRAUNHOFER IESE   (Germany)

^b Hitachi Europe Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; QUALITY CONTROL; RISK ANALYSIS;

PRODUCT LINE ECONOMIC MODELS; PRODUCT LINE ENGINEERING; RETURN-ON-INVESTMENT;

PRODUCTION ENGINEERING;

EID: 34547330411     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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