Clopenness of systems: The interwoven nature of ecosystems

CEUR Workshop Proceedings

Volumn 746, Issue , 2011, Pages 52-64

  Molder, Joost Te ^a,b   Van Lier, Ben ^a,b   Jansen, Slinger ^a,b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Centric   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Clopenness assessment; Closeness; Openness; Organizational clopenness; Software clopenness

Indexed keywords

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

BUSINESS DECISIONS; CLOPENNESS ASSESSMENT; CLOSENESS; END USERS; OPENNESS; ORGANIZATIONAL CLOPENNESS; SOFTWARE INDUSTRY; SOFTWARE PRODUCTS;

ECOSYSTEMS;

EID: 84890889093     PISSN: 16130073     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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