Optimized staffing for product releases and its application at Chartwell Technology

Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 365-386

  Kapur, Puneet ^a   Ngo The, An ^b   Ruhe, Günther ^b,c   Smith, Andrew ^a  

^a Chartwell Technology Inc   (Canada)

^b Expert Decisions Inc   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Evolutionary software development; Focused search; Genetic algorithms; Industrial case study; Release planning; Staffing

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BUDGET CONTROL; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; DIESEL ENGINES; ENTERPRISE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; LINEAR PROGRAMMING; LINEARIZATION; NUCLEAR PROPULSION; PERSONNEL SELECTION; SOFTWARE DESIGN; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SOLUTIONS;

EVOLUTIONARY SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; FOCUSED SEARCH; INDUSTRIAL CASE STUDY; RELEASE PLANNING; STAFFING;

PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 56749103981     PISSN: 1532060X     EISSN: 15320618     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/smr.379     Document Type: Article

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