Enhancing the OPEN Process Framework with service-oriented method fragments

Software and Systems Modeling

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 361-390

  Gholami, Mahdi Fahmideh ^a   Sharifi, Mohsen ^a   Jamshidi, Pooyan ^b  

^a IRAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Method fragment; OPEN Process Framework; OPF repository; Service oriented software development; Situational method engineering

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE REUSABILITY; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS;

METHOD FRAGMENTS; OPEN PROCESS FRAMEWORK; OPF REPOSITORY; SERVICE-ORIENTED SOFTWARES; SITUATIONAL METHOD ENGINEERING;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 84893742447     PISSN: 16191366     EISSN: 16191374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10270-011-0222-z     Document Type: Article

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