Where do goals come from: The underlying principles of goal-oriented requirements engineering

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Requirements Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 353-362

  Regev, Gil ^a   Wegmann, Alain ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYBERNETICS; HEURISTIC METHODS; IDENTIFICATION (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

GOAL IDENTIFICATION HEURISTICS; GOAL-ORIENTED REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING;

REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING;

EID: 27644496440     PISSN: 1090705X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/re.2005.80     Document Type: Conference Paper

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