How to avoid drastic software process change (using stochastic stability)

Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 540-550

  Menzies, Tim ^a   Williams, Steve ^a   El Rawas, Oussama ^a   Boehm, Barry ^b   Hihn, Jairus ^c  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURRENT STRUCTURE; INTERNAL CHANGES; PROJECT MANAGERS; SOFTWARE PROCESS; SOFTWARE PROJECT; STOCHASTIC SAMPLING; STOCHASTIC STABILITY;

MANAGERS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 77949907308     PISSN: 02705257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSE.2009.5070552     Document Type: Conference Paper

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