Software economics: A roadmap

Proceedings of the Conference on the Future of Software Engineering, ICSE 2000

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages 319-343

  Boehm, Barry W ^a   Sullivan, Kevin J ^b  

^a Department of Computer Science ^*  (United States)

^b University of Virginia   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMICS; INVESTMENTS; PRODUCT DESIGN; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

DOMAIN SPECIFIC; MAXIMAL VALUES; SOCIAL PROBLEMS; SOFTWARE ECONOMICS; STATE OF THE ART; STRATEGIC INVESTMENTS; THEORY AND PRACTICE; VALUE CREATION;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 85013589577     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/336512.336584     Document Type: Conference Paper

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