An approach for matching functional business requirements to standard application software packages via ontology

Proceedings - International Computer Software and Applications Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1017-1022

  Kluge, Rolf ^a   Hering, Thomas ^a   Belter, Roman ^a   Franczyk, Bogdan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Business requirements; Ontology; Requirement engineering; Standard application software

Indexed keywords

APPLICATIONS; AUTOMATA THEORY; COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; COMPUTERS; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); ENGINEERING RESEARCH; ONTOLOGY; RESEARCH; SOFTWARE DESIGN; SOFTWARE PACKAGES; STANDARDIZATION; STANDARDS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE SONAR; TECHNOLOGY; WORD PROCESSING;

APPLICATION SOFTWARES; BUSINESS REQUIREMENTS; FORMAL REPRESENTATIONS; FUNCTIONAL ASPECTS; REQUIREMENT ENGINEERING; SEMI-AUTOMATED; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS; SOFTWARE FEATURES; STANDARD APPLICATION SOFTWARE;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 51949113510     PISSN: 07303157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/COMPSAC.2008.147     Document Type: Conference Paper

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