Selecting locations for follow-the-sun software development: Towards a routing model

Proceedings - 2009 4th IEEE International Conference on Global Software Engineering, ICGSE 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 185-194

  Visser, Christian ^a   Van Solingen, Rini ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA SETS; DEMOGRAPHIC DATA; OPTIMAL DEPLOYMENT; OPTIMAL TIME; ROUTING MODEL; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; STRATEGIC DECISIONS; TRANSFER TIME;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; LOCATION; SOFTWARE DESIGN; SUN; WORLD WIDE WEB;

ROUTING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 71049161781     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICGSE.2009.26     Document Type: Conference Paper

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