A case study validation of a knowledge-based approach for the selection of requirements engineering techniques

Requirements Engineering

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 117-146

  Jiang, Li ^a   Eberlein, Armin ^b   Far, Behrouz H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF SHARJAH   (United Arab Emirates)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Decision support; Evaluation; Knowledge management; Reasoning; Requirements engineering; Techniques

Indexed keywords

CASE BASED REASONING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

CASE STUDY; REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING TECHNIQUES; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING PROCESS;

REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING;

EID: 44249121963     PISSN: 09473602     EISSN: 1432010X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00766-007-0060-2     Document Type: Article

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