Poladian, Vahe; Butler, Shawn; Shaw, Mary; Garlan, David - 2003
costs in the analysis of software design express all costs in currency units for reasons of simplicity and tractability …. Indeed, in theoretical economics all costs can, in principle, be expressed in dollars. Software engineering problems, however …, often present situations in which converting all costs to a common currency is problematical. In this paper we pinpoint some …