Application of swarm techniques to requirements engineering: Requirements tracing

Proceedings of the 2010 18th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference, RE2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 211-220

  Sultanov, Hakim ^a   Hayes, Jane Huffman ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Information retrieval; Requirements traceability; Software engineering; Swarms

Indexed keywords

ANT COLONY ALGORITHMS; LOW LEVEL; PROBLEM DOMAIN; REAL-WORLD DATASETS; REQUIREMENTS TRACEABILITY; SWARM INTELLIGENCE; SWARMS; TRACING PROBLEM;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CELLULAR AUTOMATA; ENGINEERING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; OPTIMIZATION; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING;

EID: 78650345313     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/RE.2010.33     Document Type: Conference Paper

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