Decision support for customization of the COTS selection process

Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages

  Mohamed, Abdallah ^a   Ruhe, Guenther ^a   Eberlein, Armin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF SHARJAH   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

COTS; customizable method; hybrid decision support; RACE; selection

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY LEVELS; CUSTOMIZABLE; DECISION SUPPORTS; EMPIRICAL RESULTS; HUMAN EXPERTISE; HYBRID APPROACH; POSITION PAPERS; PROCESS LEVELS; PROJECT DOMAIN; RELEASE PLANNING; SELECTION PROCESS; SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGY; SOLUTION TECHNIQUES;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; MODELS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION;

EID: 77954486828     PISSN: 02705257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1082948.1082958     Document Type: Conference Paper

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