Software ecosystems-A systematic literature review

Journal of Systems and Software

Volumn 86, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1294-1306

  Manikas, Konstantinos ^a   Hansen, Klaus Marius ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Software ecosystem; Software ecosystems; Systematic literature review

Indexed keywords

C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); ENGINEERING RESEARCH; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

ENGINEERING PERSPECTIVE; REAL-WORLD; SOFTWARE ECOSYSTEMS; SOFTWARE SOLUTION; SYSTEMATIC LITERATURE REVIEW; TECHNOLOGICAL PLATFORM;

ECOSYSTEMS;

EID: 84875249659     PISSN: 01641212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2012.12.026     Document Type: Article

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