Selecting components: A process for context-driven evaluation

Proceedings - Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference, APSEC

Volumn 2003-January, Issue , 2003, Pages 456-465

  Maxville, Valerie ^a   Lam, Chiou Peng ^a   Armarego, Jocelyn ^a  

^a EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORMAL METHODS; FORMAL SPECIFICATION; OUTSOURCING; SEMANTICS; SPECIFICATIONS;

COMPONENT SELECTION; COMPONENT-BASED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; CONTEXT INFORMATION; SELECTION AND EVALUATIONS; TARGET APPLICATION; THIRD PARTIES; THIRD PARTY VENDORS;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 70349747405     PISSN: 15301362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/APSEC.2003.01254401     Document Type: Conference Paper

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