Decision support for the software product line domain engineering lifecycle

Automated Software Engineering

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 335-377

  Bagheri, Ebrahim ^a   Ensan, Faezeh ^b   Gasevic, Dragan ^a  

^a ATHABASCA UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Domain engineering; Feature models; NLP model inference; Software product lines

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY MEASURES; COLLABORATION PLATFORMS; CONTROLLED EXPERIMENTATION; DECISION SUPPORTS; DOMAIN ENGINEERING; ENGINEERING ASSETS; ERROR PRONES; FEATURE MODELS; FEATURE SPACE; INTEGRITY CONSTRAINTS; MODEL INFERENCE; MULTIPLE DOMAINS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; NEW APPLICATIONS; REUSABILITY OF SOFTWARE; SEMANTIC LINK; SOFTWARE PRODUCT LINE; SOFTWARE PRODUCT LINE ENGINEERINGS; TARGET DOMAIN; TRACEABILITY LINKS; WORDNET;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE REUSABILITY; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; LIFE CYCLE; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; REUSABILITY; SEMANTICS;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 84863724820     PISSN: 09288910     EISSN: 15737535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10515-011-0099-7     Document Type: Article

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