Ensuring the quality of conceptual representations

Software Quality Journal

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 213-233

  Nelson, H James ^a   Monarchi, David E ^b  

^a SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Conceptual representation; Modeling process; Quality

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); ERROR CORRECTION; IMAGE QUALITY;

CONCEPTUAL REPRESENTATION; CORRECTION MECHANISM; ERROR PREVENTION; HIGH QUALITY DATA; MODELING PROCESS; PROCESS REPRESENTATION; QUANTITATIVE METHOD; SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 33947692170     PISSN: 09639314     EISSN: 15731367     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11219-006-9011-2     Document Type: Article

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