Method engineering: State-of-the-art survey and research proposal

Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications

Volumn 199, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 3-21

  Rolland, Colette ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 1 PANTHÉON SORBONNE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METHOD COMPONENTS; METHOD ENGINEERING; POWER; RESEARCH COMMUNITIES; RESEARCH PROPOSALS; STATE OF THE ART;

SURVEYS;

EID: 72949105969     PISSN: 09226389     EISSN: 18798314     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.3233/978-1-60750-049-0-3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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