An ontology based approach to non-functional requirements conceptualization

4th International Conference on Software Engineering Advances, ICSEA 2009, Includes SEDES 2009: Simposio para Estudantes de Doutoramento em Engenharia de Software

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 299-308

  Kassab, M ^a   Ormandjieva, O ^a   Daneva, M ^b  

^a Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION; NON-FUNCTIONAL REQUIREMENTS; ONTOLOGY-BASED; RESEARCH ACTIVITIES; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT;

LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; MODELS; ONTOLOGY; TAXONOMIES;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 70749149218     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSEA.2009.50     Document Type: Conference Paper

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