Analogical reuse of requirements specifications: A computational model

Applied Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 281-305

  Spanoudakis, George ^a,b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERFORMANCE; PROBABILITY; PROBLEM SOLVING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ANALOGICAL REUSE; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 0030190614     PISSN: 08839514     EISSN: 10876545     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/088395196118515     Document Type: Article

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