A broad, quantitative model for making early requirements decisions

IEEE Software

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 49-56

  Feather, Martin S ^a   Cornford, Steven L ^a   Hicks, Kenneth A ^a   Kiper, James D ^b   Menzies, Tim ^c  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^c WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cost estimation; Data mining; Decision support; Information visualization; Management; Optimization; Requirements analysis; Requirements elicitation; Risk management

Indexed keywords

COST ESTIMATION; REQUIREMENTS ELICITATION;

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DATA MINING; DATA VISUALIZATION; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; RISK MANAGEMENT;

REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING;

EID: 40949132579     PISSN: 07407459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MS.2008.29     Document Type: Article

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