A quality perspective of software evolvability using semantic analysis

ICSC 2009 - 2009 IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 420-427

  Schugerl, Philipp ^a   Rilling, Juergen ^a   Witte, René ^a   Charland, Philippe ^b  

^a Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

^b DEFENCE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CANADA VALCARTIER   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ontology; Software evolvability

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACTION LEVEL; DISTRIBUTED PROCESS; EVOLVABILITY; INTEGRATION OF KNOWLEDGE; NON-FUNCTIONAL; ONTOLOGICAL REPRESENTATION; QUALITY ATTRIBUTES; QUALITY REQUIREMENTS; SEMANTIC ANALYSIS; SEMANTIC MODELING; SOFTWARE ARTIFACTS; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; SOFTWARE EVOLVABILITY; SUPPORTING TOOL;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; ONTOLOGY; SEMANTICS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SPONTANEOUS EMISSION;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION;

EID: 73449137885     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSC.2009.10     Document Type: Conference Paper

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