The CHAMPS system: Change management with planning and scheduling

IEEE Symposium Record on Network Operations and Management Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 395-408

  Keller, A ^a   Hellerstein, J L ^a   Wolf, J L ^a   Wu, K L ^a   Krishnan, V ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Change Management; Plan; Schedule Optimization; Software Deployment; Workflows

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER HARDWARE; DATA PROCESSING; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; OPTIMIZATION; PLANNING; QUALITY OF SERVICE; SCHEDULING; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING;

CHANGE MANAGEMENT; PLAN; SCHEDULE OPTIMIZATION; SOFTWARE DEPLOYMENT; WORKFLOWS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 4544298113     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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