Title :
Approaching support for Internet-based negotiation on software projects
Author :
Kötting, Boris ; Maurer, Frank
Author_Institution :
Kaiserslautern Univ., Germany
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;
Conference_Titel :
Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises, 2001. WET ICE 2001. Proceedings. Tenth IEEE International Workshops on
Conference_Location :
Cambridge, MA
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-1269-0
DOI :
10.1109/ENABL.2001.953382
