On-demand cluster analysis for product line functional requirements

Proceedings - 12th International Software Product Line Conference, SPLC 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 87-96

  Niu, Nan ^a   Easterbrook, Steve ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HELIUM; INFORMATION THEORY; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; RANDOM VARIABLES;

CLUSTERING; DOMAIN ANALYSES; FEATURE IDENTIFICATIONS; FUNCTIONAL REQUIREMENTS; MINIMAL INFORMATIONS; ON-DEMAND; PRODUCT LINES; SEMANTIC ANALYSES; SYSTEM DECOMPOSITIONS;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS;

EID: 55049140816     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SPLC.2008.11     Document Type: Conference Paper

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