Valuation of software initiatives under uncertainty: Concepts, issues, and techniques

Value-Based Software Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 39-66

  Erdogmus, Hakan ^a   Favaro, John ^b   Halling, Michael ^c  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^b Consulenza Informatica ^*  (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

decision tree; discounted cash; flow; net present value; real options; Software economics; uncertainty; Valuation

Indexed keywords

EID: 60349105125     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-29263-2_3     Document Type: Chapter

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