Triangulation as a basis for knowledge discovery in software engineering

Empirical Software Engineering

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 223-228

  Miller, James ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Knowledge discovery; Software engineering; Triangulation

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; PROBLEM SOLVING; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; TRIANGULATION;

TRIANGULATION BASIS;

DATA MINING;

EID: 43349084133     PISSN: 13823256     EISSN: 15737616     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10664-008-9063-y     Document Type: Article

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