Supporting systems development by capturing deliberations during requirements engineering

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 1992, Pages 498-510

  Ramesh, Balasubramaniam ^a   Dhar, Vasant ^b  

^a NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

argumentation conceptual modeling; design ratio ; group design; nale; Process knowledge; reason maintenance; requirements engineering; stakeholder support

Indexed keywords

SYSTEMS ENGINEERING;

REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 0026882989     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/32.142872     Document Type: Article

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