Towards an accurate functional size measurement procedure for conceptual models in an MDA environment

Data and Knowledge Engineering

Volumn 69, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 472-490

  Marín, Beatriz ^a   Pastor, Oscar ^a   Abran, Alain ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

^b ÉCOLE DE TECHNOLOGIE SUPÉRIEURE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Conceptual modeling; COSMIC; Functional size measurement; MDA; Object orientation

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE MEASUREMENT; AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED; CONCEPTUAL MODEL; CONCEPTUAL MODELING; FUNCTION POINT; FUNCTIONAL SIZE; FUNCTIONAL SIZE MEASUREMENTS; MODEL TRANSFORMATION; OBJECT ORIENTATION; OBJECT ORIENTED; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; THREE PHASIS;

COSMOLOGY; SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE;

OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING;

EID: 77949484596     PISSN: 0169023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.datak.2010.01.001     Document Type: Article

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