A knowledge-based object modeling advisor for developing quality object models

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 2893-2906

  Bolloju, Narasimha ^a   Sugumaran, Vijayan ^b,c  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b OAKLAND UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Sogang University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Class diagrams; Knowledge based system; Model quality; Object modeling

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS ENVIRONMENTS; CLASS DIAGRAMS; CONCEPTUAL MODEL QUALITY; EMPIRICAL EVALUATIONS; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; KNOWLEDGE COMPONENTS; MODEL QUALITY; OBJECT MODEL; OBJECT MODELING; OPEN SOURCES; QUALITY PROBLEMS; REQUIREMENTS MODELING; SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS; SYSTEMS ANALYSTS;

KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; ONTOLOGY; SEMANTICS;

OPEN SYSTEMS;

EID: 80255123676     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2011.08.151     Document Type: Article

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