Not going to take this anymore: Multi-objective overtime planning for Software Engineering projects

Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 462-471

  Ferrucci, Filomena ^a   Harman, Mark ^b   Ren, Jian ^b   Sarro, Federica ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALERNO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MULTI OBJECTIVE; MULTIOBJECTIVE DECISION; PLANNING STRATEGIES; PROJECT RISK; QUALITY SOFTWARE; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING PROJECTS; SOFTWARE PROJECT; STANDARD EVALUATIONS;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; EXPERIMENTS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 84886426431     PISSN: 02705257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSE.2013.6606592     Document Type: Conference Paper

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