MiHOS: An approach to support handling the mismatches between system requirements and COTS products

Requirements Engineering

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 127-143

  Mohamed, Abdallah ^a   Ruhe, Guenther ^a   Eberlein, Armin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF SHARJAH   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

COTS selection; COTS versus requirements mismatch; Decision support

Indexed keywords

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

COMMERCIAL OFF-THE-SHELF (COTS); REQUIREMENTS MISMATCH; SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS;

REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING;

EID: 44949113122     PISSN: 09473602     EISSN: 1432010X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00766-007-0041-5     Document Type: Article

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