A model of open source software maintenance activities

IEEM 2009 - IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 267-271

  Xiong, C J ^a   Li, Y F ^a   Xie, M ^a   Ng, S H ^a   Goh, T N ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Maintenance efforts; Open source software; Software maintenance

Indexed keywords

HIGH CONFIDENCE; MAINTENANCE ACTIVITY; MAINTENANCE PROCESS; NUMERICAL EXAMPLE; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; RAYLEIGH FUNCTIONS; SOFTWARE DEVELOPER; SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING; INTERNET; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPEN SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 77949493767     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEEM.2009.5373367     Document Type: Conference Paper

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