Cost-Benefit Analysis in Information Systems Development and Operation

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Cost-Benefit Analysis in Information Systems Development and Operation

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ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR) archive
Volume 10 , Issue 1 (March 1978) table of contents

Pages: 19 - 34

Year of Publication: 1978

ISSN:0360-0300

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John Leslie King	The URBIS Group, Public Policy Research Organization, University of California, Irvine, California
Edward L. Schrems	The URBIS Group, Public Policy Research Organization, University of California, Irvine, California

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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