Management of performance requirements for information systems

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 26, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 1122-1146

  Nixon, Brian A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENTURY YEAR PROBLEM; DATA STRUCTURES; GRAPHIC METHODS; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS; REGULATORY COMPLIANCE; REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING; SEMANTICS;

PERFORMANCE REQUIREMENTS FRAMEWORK; SEMANTIC DATA MODELS; SOFTGOAL INTERDEPENDENCY GRAPH; SOFTWARE PERFORMANCE ENGINEERING; SOFTWARE QUALITY;

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0034476662     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/32.888627     Document Type: Article

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