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Empirical studies of software engineering: a roadmap

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Proceedings of the Conference on The Future of Software Engineering table of contents

Limerick, Ireland

Pages: 345 - 355

Year of Publication: 2000

ISBN:1-58113-253-0

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Dewayne E. Perry	Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
Adam A. Porter	Computer Science, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
Lawrence G. Votta	Motorola, 1501 W. Shure Dr., Arlington Heights, IL

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IEEE-CS : Computer Society
SIGSOFT: ACM Special Interest Group on Software Engineering
Irish Comp Soc : Irish Computer Society

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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