Assessing COTS assessment: how much is enough?

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 2959, Issue , 2004, Pages 183-198

  Port, Dan ^a   Chen, Scott ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b University of Southern California   (United States)

Author keywords

COTS; COTS assessment; COTS evaluation; COTS integration; Software risk

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; RISKS;

COTS; COTS ASSESSMENT; COTS EVALUATION; COTS INTEGRATION; SOFTWARE RISKS;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 35048814693     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-24645-9_29     Document Type: Article

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