A General Explanation Component for Conceptual Modeling in CASE Environments

ACM Transactions on Information Systems

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 297-329

  Gulla, Jon Atle ^a,b  

^a GMD

^b German National Research Center for Information Technology   (Germany)

Author keywords

D.2.2 Software Engineering : Tools and Techniques Computer aided software engineering (CASE); Design; Documentation; I.2.7 Artificial Intelligence : Natural Language Processing; I.6.4 Simulation and Modeling : Model Validation and Analysis

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION LANGUAGES; DATABASE SYSTEMS; FORMAL LANGUAGES; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PROGRAM DOCUMENTATION;

CONCEPTUAL MODELING; INFORMATION SYSTEMS ENGINEERING; VALIDATION TECHNIQUES;

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0030193153     PISSN: 10468188     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/230538.230560     Document Type: Article

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