A knowledge-based COTS-aware requirements engineering approach

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn 27, Issue , 2002, Pages 175-182

  Chung, Lawrence ^a   Cooper, Kendra ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Dallas   (United States)

Author keywords

COTS components; knowledge base; requirements engineering

Indexed keywords

CARE APPROACH; COMMERCIAL OFF-THE-SHELF COMPONENTS; COTS COMPONENT; DIGITAL LIBRARY SYSTEMS; GOAL-ORIENTED; KNOWLEDGE BASE; META MODEL; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING METHODOLOGIES; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING PROCESS; SUBJECT MATTERS; TOOL SUPPORT;

DIGITAL LIBRARIES; ENGINEERING; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SOFTWARE PACKAGES;

KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING;

EID: 66249091002     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/568760.568791     Document Type: Conference Paper

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