Cognitive structures of software evaluation: A means-end chain analysis of quality

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

Volumn 2188, Issue , 2001, Pages 6-26

  Wong, Bernard ^a   Jeffery, Ross ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION;

COGNITIVE STRUCTURES; MEANS-END CHAINS; PRODUCT CHARACTERISTICS; QUALITY EVALUATION; SOFTWARE EVALUATION; SOFTWARE QUALITY;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 84977577819     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-44813-6_5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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