ElicitO: A quality ontology-guided NFR elicitation tool

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4542 LNCS, Issue , 2007, Pages 306-319

  Al Balushi, Taiseera Hazeem ^a   Sampaio, Pedro R Falcone ^a   Dabhi, Divyesh ^a   Loucopoulos, Pericles ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Non functional requirements (NFRs); Ontologies; Prot g ; Requirements elicitation; Requirements engineering; Tools

Indexed keywords

KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; ONTOLOGY; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

NON FUNCTIONAL REQUIREMENTS (NFRS); REQUIREMENTS ELICITATION; STRUCTURE ELICITATION;

REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING;

EID: 38149114096     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-73031-6_23     Document Type: Conference Paper

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