Supporting the requirements prioritization process using social network analysis techniques

Proceedings of the Workshop on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises, WETICE

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 110-115

  Fitsilis, Panos ^a   Gerogiannis, Vassilis ^a   Anthopoulos, Leonidas ^a   Savvas, Ilias ^b  

^a Project Management Department   (Greece)

^b NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Requirements management; Requirements prioritazation; Social networking

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX PROCESSES; PRIORITIZATION; PRIORITIZATION PROCESS; REQUIREMENTS MANAGEMENT; REQUIREMENTS PRIORITAZATION; REQUIREMENTS PRIORITIZATION; SAMPLE DATA; SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS; SOCIAL NETWORKING; SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS MANAGEMENT; SYSTEM ARCHITECTURES;

ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS;

REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING;

EID: 77955883085     PISSN: 15244547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WETICE.2010.24     Document Type: Conference Paper

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