JOURNAL ARTICLE

Seven principles for selecting software packages

Jan DamsgaardJan Karlsbjerg

Year: 2010 Journal:   Communications of the ACM Vol: 53 (8)Pages: 63-71   Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery

Abstract

Everything you always wanted to know but were afraid to ask about the decision-making process.

Keywords:
Ask price Computer science Software Process (computing) Software engineering Programming language Business

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6.27
FWCI (Field Weighted Citation Impact)
40
Refs
0.96
Citation Normalized Percentile
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Citation History

Topics

Software Engineering Techniques and Practices
Physical Sciences →  Computer Science →  Information Systems
Open Source Software Innovations
Physical Sciences →  Computer Science →  Computer Science Applications
Advanced Software Engineering Methodologies
Physical Sciences →  Computer Science →  Artificial Intelligence

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