Value based intelligent requirement prioritization (Virp): Expert driven fuzzy logic based prioritization technique

International Journal of Innovative Computing, Information and Control

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1017-1038

  Ramzan, Muhammad ^a   Jaffar, M Arfan ^a   Shahid, Arshad Ali ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF COMPUTER AND EMERGING SCIENCES   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Fuzzy systems; Intelligent requirements prioritization; Requirement engineering; Requirements prioritization

Indexed keywords

END-PRODUCTS; MULTI-LEVEL; PRIORITIZATION; REQUIREMENT ENGINEERING; REQUIREMENTS PRIORITIZATION; SOFTWARE PROJECT; VALUE-BASED;

EXPERIMENTS; FUZZY SETS;

FUZZY LOGIC;

EID: 79951686502     PISSN: 13494198     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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