Modelling software development methodologies: A conceptual foundation

Journal of Systems and Software

Volumn 80, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1778-1796

  Gonzalez Perez, Cesar ^a   Henderson Sellers, Brian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Metamodelling; Modelling; Software development methodologies; Theoretical basis

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METADATA; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; UNIFIED MODELING LANGUAGE;

METAMODELING; OBJECT ORIENTED CONTEXTS; THEORETICAL BASIS;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 34548657821     PISSN: 01641212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2007.02.048     Document Type: Article

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