Linguistic problems with requirements and knowledge elicitation

Requirements Engineering

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 114-124

  Sutton, David C ^a  

^a System Six Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Elicitation; Epistemology; Linguistic; Prototyping; Representation; Requirements

Indexed keywords

EID: 0013380033     PISSN: 09473602     EISSN: 1432010X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00010344     Document Type: Article

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