Towards the use of granularity theory for determining the size of atomic method fragments for use in situational method engineering

IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology

Volumn 351 AICT, Issue , 2011, Pages 49-63

  Henderson Sellers, Brian ^a   Gonzalez Perez, Cesar ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

granularity; method fragments; situational method engineering

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

BEST PRACTICES; COMPOSABILITY; GRANULARITY; INTEROPERATIONS; METHOD ENGINEERING; METHOD FRAGMENTS; SERVICE ORIENTED; SITUATIONAL METHOD ENGINEERING;

INTEROPERABILITY;

EID: 79953826915     PISSN: 18684238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-19997-4_6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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