A knowledge-based system for improving the consistency between object models and use case narratives

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 9398-9410

  Bolloju, Narasimha ^a   Schneider, Christoph ^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 systems; Model consistency; Object modeling; Use case narratives

Indexed keywords

CLASS DIAGRAMS; COLLABORATION PATTERNS; DESIGN SCIENCE; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; MODEL CONSISTENCY; MODEL ELEMENTS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; OBJECT MODEL; OBJECT MODELING; OPEN SOURCES; PROTOTYPE SYSTEM; SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT; USE CASE NARRATIVES;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS;

EID: 84859218973     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2012.02.126     Document Type: Article

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