Changing attitudes towards the generation of architectural models

Journal of Systems and Software

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 463-479

  Castro, Jaelson ^a   Lucena, Marcia ^b   Silva, Carla ^c   Alencar, Fernanda ^a   Santos, Emanuel ^a   Pimentel, João ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO NORTE   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARAÍBA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Architectural design; Model driven development; Model transformations; Requirements engineering

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION LANGUAGES; ARCHITECTURAL MODELS; GOAL MODELS; GOAL ORIENTATIONS; MODEL DRIVEN DEVELOPMENT; MODEL TRANSFORMATION; MODEL TRANSFORMATIONS; MODELING LANGUAGES; REQUIREMENTS MODELING; SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS; TARGET LANGUAGE;

REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING;

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN;

EID: 84857365900     PISSN: 01641212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2011.05.047     Document Type: Article

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