Approaching support for Internet-based negotiation on software projects

Author

Kötting, Boris ; Maurer, Frank

Author_Institution

Kaiserslautern Univ., Germany

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

25

Lastpage

30

Abstract

Negotiating a software development contract is a complex operation. One needs to make decisions about many different aspects of what information to provide to possible contractors, who the potential collaborators can be and how one wants to negotiate with them. This paper deals with our approach for negotiation support for software development tasks. We created a virtual marketplace that supports contract negotiation between different companies as well as in between a company. In contrast to existing Web-based marketplaces, we needed to develop concepts for dealing with complex structures like task hierarchies and also offer more negotiation possibilities

Keywords

Internet; contracts; negotiation support systems; project management; project support environments; software development management; Internet-based negotiation support; World Wide Web-based marketplaces; collaborators; contractors; information provision; software development contract negotiation; software development tasks; software projects; task hierarchies; virtual marketplace; Collaborative work; Contracts; Employee rights; International collaboration; Internet; Java; Organizing; Pricing; Programming; Proposals;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises, 2001. WET ICE 2001. Proceedings. Tenth IEEE International Workshops on

Conference_Location

Cambridge, MA

ISSN

1080-1383

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1269-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ENABL.2001.953382

Filename

953382