Requirements engineering and technology transfer: Obstacles, incentives and improvement agenda

Requirements Engineering

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 113-123

  Kaindl, Hermann ^a   Brinkkemper, Sjaak ^b   Bubenko Jr , Janis A ^c   Farbey, Barbara ^d   Greenspan, Sol J ^e   Heitmeyer, Constance L ^f   Do Prado Leite, Julio Cesar Sampaio ^g   Mead, Nancy R ^h   Mylopoulos, John ⁱ   Siddiqi, Jawed ^j  

^a SIEMENS AG ÖSTERREICH   (Austria)

^b Baan Company R and D   (Netherlands)

^c ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e IT Strategies Inc Boston MA USA   (United States)

^f NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^g PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^h CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^j SHEFFIELD HALLAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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Author keywords

Requirements engineering; Technology transfer

Indexed keywords

EID: 0141701299     PISSN: 09473602     EISSN: 1432010X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s007660200008     Document Type: Article

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