The limitations of current decision-making techniques in the procurement of COTS software components

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

Volumn 2255, Issue , 2002, Pages 176-187

  Ncube, Cornelius ^a   Dean, John C ^b  

^a ZAYED UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMERCIAL OFF-THE-SHELF; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS;

COTS SOFTWARE COMPONENTS; PRODUCT EVALUATION; SOFTWARE PRODUCTS;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 84957038333     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-45588-4_17     Document Type: Conference Paper

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