Evaluating the practical use of different measurement scales in requirements prioritisation

ISESE'06 - Proceedings of the 5th ACM-IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 326-335

  Karlsson, Lena ^a   Host, Martin ^a   Regnell, Björn ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Cost value approach; Ordinal scale data; Ratio scale data; Requirements prioritisation

Indexed keywords

COST VALUE APPROACHES; MEASUREMENT SCALES; ORDINAL SCALE DATA; RATIO SCALE DATA;

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; DATA REDUCTION; DATA STRUCTURES; VALUE ENGINEERING;

REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING;

EID: 34247326975     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1159733.1159782     Document Type: Conference Paper

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