Reducing ambiguities in requirements specifications via automatically created object-oriented models

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

Volumn 5320 LNCS, Issue , 2008, Pages 103-124

  Popescu, Daniel ^a   Rugaber, Spencer ^b   Medvidovic, Nenad ^a   Berry, Daniel M ^c  

^a University of Southern California   (United States)

^b Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; FORMAL LANGUAGES; REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING; SEMANTICS; SPECIFICATIONS; STIMULATED RAMAN SCATTERING;

ANALYSIS MODELS; AUTOMATIC METHODS; HUMAN REASONING; NATURAL LANGUAGES; PROTOTYPE TOOLS; SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS;

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 58449126698     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-89778-1_10     Document Type: Conference Paper

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