Shaping human capital in software development teams: The case of mentoring enabled by semantics

IET Software

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 445-452

  Soto Acosta, P ^a   Casado Lumbreras, C ^b   Cabezas Isla, F ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

^b Karakorum Servicios Profesionales   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES; HUMAN CAPITALS; HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGEMENT; INFLUENTIAL FACTORS; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES (IT); KNOWLEDGE WORKERS; PAIR MATCHING; PERSONNEL DEVELOPMENT; RAPID EVOLUTION; SEMANTIC TECHNOLOGIES; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAMS;

PERSONNEL; SEMANTICS; SOFTWARE DESIGN; TECHNOLOGY;

SEMANTIC WEB;

EID: 78751470966     PISSN: 17518806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/iet-sen.2010.0087     Document Type: Article

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