Aligning the economic modeling of software reuse with reuse practices

Information and Software Technology

Volumn 50, Issue 7-8, 2008, Pages 753-762

  Postmus, Douwe ^a   Meijler, Theo Dirk ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Composition; Reuse economic model; Software reuse; Variation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COSTS; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETERIZATION;

ECONOMIC MODELING; REUSABLE ASSETS; SPECIALIZATION;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE REUSABILITY;

EID: 42649127085     PISSN: 09505849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.infsof.2007.07.009     Document Type: Article

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