Theoretical and practical complexity of modeling methods

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 50, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 46-51

  Erickson, John ^a   Siau, Keng ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AT OMAHA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT; INTERNAL ORGANIZATION COOPERATION; REALISTIC ESTIMATION; SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT METHODS;

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS; INTEROPERABILITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 34547457122     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: 15577317     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1278201.1278205     Document Type: Article

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