A market-based approach to software evolution

Proceedings of the Conference on Object-Oriented Programming Systems, Languages, and Applications, OOPSLA

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 973-980

  Bacon, David F ^a   Chen, Yiling ^a   Parkes, David ^a   Rao, Malvika ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Markets; Mechanism design; Software correctness

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED VERIFICATION; MARKET DESIGN; MARKET FORCES; MARKET-BASED APPROACH; MARKET-BASED MECHANISMS; MECHANISM DESIGN; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; SOFTWARE COMPLEXITY; SOFTWARE CORRECTNESS; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT PROCESS; SOFTWARE EVOLUTION;

COMMERCE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; COMPUTER SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING; LINGUISTICS; MACHINE DESIGN; PROFITABILITY; PROGRAM DEBUGGING; SOFTWARE DESIGN; VERIFICATION;

OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING;

EID: 72249123430     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1639950.1640066     Document Type: Conference Paper

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