Creating Process-Agents incrementally by mining process asset library

Information Sciences

Volumn 233, Issue , 2013, Pages 183-199

  Huang, Hui ^a,b   Xiao, Junchao ^a   Yang, Qiusong ^a   Wang, Qing ^a   Wu, Hong ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF SOFTWARE   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Clustering; Human resource; Process Agent; Software process; Trustworthiness

Indexed keywords

CLUSTERING; DEGREE OF CONFIDENCE; PROCESS-AGENT; RESOURCE-SCHEDULING; SOFTWARE ORGANIZATION; SOFTWARE PROCESS; SOFTWARE PROCESS MODELING; TRUSTWORTHINESS;

LIBRARIES; PERSONNEL; PROCESS ENGINEERING;

SOFTWARE AGENTS;

EID: 84875215346     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2012.12.052     Document Type: Article

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