Toward software requirements modularization using hierarchical clustering techniques

Proceedings of the Annual Southeast Conference

Volumn 2, Issue , 2005, Pages 2223-2228

  Al Otaiby, Turky N ^a   AlSherif, Mohsen ^b   Bond, Walter P ^b  

^a Ministry of Defense   (Saudi Arabia)

^b Florida Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Clustering; Cohesion; Coupling; Requirement clustering; Scenarios; Software modularization

Indexed keywords

CLUSTERING METHODS; COHESION; COMPLEX SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS; DESIGN ISSUES; FUNCTIONAL RELATIONSHIP; HIER-ARCHICAL CLUSTERING; INITIAL DESIGN; LEVEL DESIGN; MODULARIZATIONS; NEW CONCEPT; SOFTWARE DESIGNERS; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; SOFTWARE MODULARITY; SOFTWARE MODULARIZATION; SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS;

ADHESION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DESIGN; MACHINERY; MODULAR CONSTRUCTION;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 47949090057     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1167253.1167305     Document Type: Conference Paper

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