An approach to constructing feature models based on requirements clustering

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Requirements Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 31-40

  Chen, Kun ^a   Zhang, Wei ^a   Zhao, Haiyan ^a   Mei, Hong ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STANDARDS;

FEATURE MODELS; FEATURE-ORIENTED METHODS; GOOD-QUALITY FEATURE MODELS;

REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING;

EID: 27644584984     PISSN: 1090705X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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