A conceptual approach to exploring creativity in requirements engineering

ACIS 2006 Proceedings - 17th Australasian Conference on Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Nguyen, Lemai ^a   Shanks, Graeme ^b  

^a DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Creative process; Creative product; Creativity; Problem solving; Requirements engineering

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS REQUIREMENT; CREATIVE PROCESS; CREATIVE PRODUCT; CREATIVITY; TECHNICAL ASPECTS; THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING;

EID: 84869133155     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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