The changing industry structure of software development for consumer electronics and its consequences for software architectures

Journal of Systems and Software

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 178-192

  Hartmann, Herman ^a,d   Trew, Tim ^b   Bosch, Jan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b NDS Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^c CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^d Nsypre   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Case study; Consumer electronics; Ecosystems; Embedded systems; Industry structures; Mobile phones; Software architecture; Software evolution; Software management; Software supply chains

Indexed keywords

CONSUMER ELECTRONICS PRODUCTS; DECISION MAKING PROCESS; HARDWARE CONFIGURATIONS; INDUSTRY STRUCTURES; MODULARIZATIONS; RESOURCECONSTRAINED DEVICES; SOFTWARE EVOLUTION; SOFTWARE MANAGEMENT; SOFTWARE SUPPLY CHAINS;

CONSUMER ELECTRONICS; DECISION MAKING; DIGITAL TELEVISION; ECOSYSTEMS; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT MANUFACTURE; ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY; EMBEDDED SOFTWARE; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; MOBILE DEVICES; MOBILE PHONES; MODULAR CONSTRUCTION; RESEARCH; SOFTWARE DESIGN; SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT; SUPPLY CHAINS; TELEPHONE; TELEPHONE SETS;

SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 80755188918     PISSN: 01641212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2011.08.007     Document Type: Article

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