Towards combining ontologies and model weaving for the evolution of requirements models

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

Volumn 5320 LNCS, Issue , 2008, Pages 85-102

  Hoss, Allyson M ^a   Carver, Doris L ^a  

^a Louisiana State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Abstract artifact; Design knowledge; Domain knowledge; Knowledge reuse; Modeling languages; Software evolution

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACTING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE REUSABILITY; DESIGN; ERROR DETECTION; HIGH LEVEL LANGUAGES; LINGUISTICS; ONTOLOGY; QUERY LANGUAGES; WEAVING;

ABSTRACT ARTIFACT; DESIGN KNOWLEDGE; DOMAIN KNOWLEDGE; KNOWLEDGE REUSE; MODELING LANGUAGES; SOFTWARE EVOLUTION;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 58449114175     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-89778-1_9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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