Information brokers in requirement-dependency social networks

Proceedings of the 16th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference, RE'08

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 53-62

  Marczak, Sabrina ^a   Damian, Daniela ^a   Stege, Ulrike ^a   Schröter, Adrian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADMINISTRATIVE DATA PROCESSING; FUNCTIONAL GROUPS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS; REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING;

FIELD STUDIES; INFORMATION BROKERS; INFORMATION FLOWS; INTER DEPENDENCIES; MANUFACTURING ORGANIZATIONS; REQUIREMENT CHANGES; REQUIREMENTS CHANGES; SOCIAL NETWORKS;

NETWORK MANAGEMENT;

EID: 58049133561     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/RE.2008.26     Document Type: Conference Paper

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