Evaluation challenges for a Federation of heterogeneous information providers: The case of NASA's Earth Science Information Partnerships

Proceedings of the Workshop on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises, WETICE

Volumn 2000-January, Issue , 2000, Pages 130-135

  Plaisant, C ^b   Komlodi, A ^a,b   Lindsay, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b Human Computer Information Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

Collaboration; Computer aided software engineering; Customer satisfaction; Educational institutions; Geoscience; Laboratories; NASA; Organizing; Performance evaluation; US Government

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; EARTH SCIENCES; LABORATORIES; NASA; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

COLLABORATION; EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS; GEOSCIENCES; ORGANIZING; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; US GOVERNMENT;

DATA ACQUISITION;

EID: 84949640509     PISSN: 15244547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ENABL.2000.883717     Document Type: Conference Paper

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