The model multiplicity problem: Experimenting with real-time specification methods

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 742-759

  Peleg, Mor ^a   Dori, Dov ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b USA   (United States)

Author keywords

Analysis and design methodologies; And empirical evaluation; Experimentation; Object oriented analysis; Object process methodology; Quality of analysis; Real time systems specification; Software engineering

Indexed keywords

OBJECT MODELING TECHNIQUE (OMT); OBJECT-PROCESS METHODOLOGY (OPM); UNIFIED MODELING LANGUAGE (UML);

COMPUTER SIMULATION LANGUAGES; COMPUTER SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING;

EID: 0034244942     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/32.879812     Document Type: Article

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