Ontology and model alignment as a means for requirements validation

Proceedings - 2010 IEEE 4th International Conference on Semantic Computing, ICSC 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 46-51

  Kof, Leonid ^a   Gacitua, Ricardo ^b   Rouncefield, Mark ^b   Sawyer, Pete ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION DOMAINS; BEHAVIOURAL MODEL; CONCEPTUAL MODEL; DOMAIN DESCRIPTION; DOMAIN MODEL; GENERIC MODELS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; NATURAL LANGUAGE REPRESENTATION; NATURAL LANGUAGES; ONTOLOGY ENGINEERING; ONTOLOGY GENERATION; REQUIREMENTS DOCUMENT; REQUIREMENTS VALIDATION; SYSTEM MODELS;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SEMANTICS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

ONTOLOGY;

EID: 79952051035     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSC.2010.95     Document Type: Conference Paper

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