An Evaluation of Expert Systems for Software Engineering Management

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 1989, Pages 747-759

  Ramsey, Connie Loggia ^a   Basili, Victor R ^b  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Expert systems; software development; software engineering management

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE--EXPERT SYSTEMS;

FRAME-BASED ABDUCTION SYSTEMS; RULE-BASED DEDUCTION SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 0024680358     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/32.24728     Document Type: Article

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