An empirical investigation on dynamic modeling in requirements engineering

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5301 LNCS, Issue , 2008, Pages 615-629

  Gravino, Carmine ^a   Scanniello, Giuseppe ^b   Tortora, Genoveffa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALERNO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASILICATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SCIENCE; LINGUISTICS; REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING;

BACHELOR STUDENTS; CONTROLLED EXPERIMENTS; DATA ANALYSIS; DYNAMIC MODELING; EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATIONS; ON DYNAMICS; REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING PROCESSES; SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS;

MODELS;

EID: 56649094168     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-87875-9_43     Document Type: Conference Paper

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