Relating Evolving Business Rules to Software Design

Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Engineering Research and Practise

Volumn 1, Issue , 2003, Pages 129-134

  Wan Kadir, Wan M N ^a   Loucopoulos, Pericles ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Business Rules; Metamodel; Software Architecture Design; Software Evolution; User Requirements

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATION THEORY; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; COMPUTER SOFTWARE PORTABILITY; INFERENCE ENGINES; PROBLEM SOLVING; XML;

BUSINESS RULES; METAMODELS; SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE/DESIGN; SOFTWARE EVOLUTION; USER REQUIREMENTS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 1642619156     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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