Going beyond the blueprint: Unraveling the complex reality of software architectures

Proceedings of the 13th European Conference on Information Systems, Information Systems in a Rapidly Changing Economy, ECIS 2005

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages

  Smolander, Kari ^a   Rossi, Matti ^b   Purao, Sandeep ^c  

^a South Carelia Polytechnic   (Finland)

^b HELSINKI SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Finland)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Grounded theory; Metaphors; Software architecture; Systems development

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX REALITY; DESCRIPTION LANGUAGES; GROUNDED THEORY; METAPHORS; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT PROCESS; SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 84870989964     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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