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Volume 47 , Issue 3 (March 2004) table of contents
Homeland security

COLUMN: The business of software table of contents

Pages: 21 - 24

Year of Publication: 2004

ISSN:0001-0782

Author

Phillip G. Armour

Corvus International Inc., Deer Park, IL

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

Seeking a better method for estimating system size in an attempt to measure knowledge content.

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	2	Capers Jones, Backfiring: Converting Lines-of-Code to Function Points, Computer, v.28 n.11, p.87-88, November 1995 [doi>10.1109/2.471193]