Outsourcing location selection with SODA: A requirements based decision support methodology and tool

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 7908 LNCS, Issue , 2013, Pages 530-545

  Kramer, Tommi ^a   Eschweiler, Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

^b Senacor Technologies AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Outsourcing Decision Making; Requirements Engineering; Software Development Outsourcing

Indexed keywords

DECISION-MAKING PROBLEM; DESIGN-ORIENTED RESEARCHES; DISTRIBUTED SOFTWARE; OUTSOURCING DECISIONS; OUTSOURCING SUCCESS; PROTOTYPICAL IMPLEMENTATION; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT OUTSOURCINGS; SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS;

CURRICULA; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING; SOFTWARE DESIGN; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING; TOOLS;

OUTSOURCING;

EID: 84879855190     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-38709-8_34     Document Type: Conference Paper

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