Introducing tool support for managing architectural knowledge: an experience report

Proceedings - Fifteenth IEEE International Conference and Workshops on the Engineering of Computer-Based Systems, ECBS 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 105-113

  Babar, Muhammad Ali ^a   Northway, Andrew ^b   Gorton, Ian ^c   Heuer, Paul ^b   Nguyen, Thong ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

^b DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

^c PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURE KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; AUSTRALIAN DEFENCE ACQUISITION; INDUSTRIAL COLLABORATORS; TOOL SUPPORT;

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; LOGISTICS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 44149099601     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ECBS.2008.27     Document Type: Conference Paper

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