This article presents a method for valuing software based on the income that use of that software is expected to … present value, and the like, are applied, always focusing on the benefits and costs of software. A major issue, not dealt with … in the literature of valuing intangibles, is that software is continually upgraded. Applying depreciation schedules is …

We develop variations of the M|G|1 queue to model the process of software maintenance within organizations and use … these models to compute the optimal allocation of resources to software maintenance. User requests are assumed to arrive … fixed cost of maintenance, if applicable …

communication. In this paper, we draw on qualitative data from 60 distributed and collocated software services delivery projects to …The successful execution of complex interdependent work in a distributed fashion - such as offshore software … development - is an anomaly, given the well known inadequacies of ICT mediated communication vis-agrave;-vis face to face …

software depend on the communication patterns of the contributors. Communication patterns among developers influence knowledge …Over the last few years, open source software (OSS) development has gained a huge popularity and has attracted a large … variety of developers under its fold. According to software engineering folklore, the architecture and the organization of …

firms specialised in information technologies. More precisely, software and communication sectors have been receiving the … développement exponentiel d'Internet (accroissement des besoins de communication des entreprises et développement du commerce …

and software maintenance activities as actually done. To these ends, this paper proposes a clarifying redefinition of the … types of software evolution and software maintenance. The paper bases the proposed classification not on people's intentions …-based classification of the types of software evolution and software maintenance. …