Identifying how determinants impact security-based open source software project success using rule induction

International Journal of Electronic Marketing and Retailing

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 352-362

  Wray, Barry A ^a   Mathieu, Richard G ^b   Teets, Jay M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA WILMINGTON   (United States)

^b JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c E Craig Wall Sr College of Business Administration   (United States)

Author keywords

CART; Classification and Regression Trees; Electronic marketing and retailing; Open Source Software; OSS; Rule induction; Security; SourceForge

Indexed keywords

EID: 66149179220     PISSN: 17411025     EISSN: 17411033     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJEMR.2009.025249     Document Type: Article

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