Relevance-based abstraction identification: Technique and evaluation

Requirements Engineering

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 251-265

  Gacitua, Ricardo ^a   Sawyer, Pete ^a   Gervasi, Vincenzo ^b  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Abstractions; Evaluation of tool; Natural language; Requirements elicitation

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACTIONS; MULTIPLE CONFIGURATIONS; NATURAL LANGUAGES; REQUIREMENTS DOCUMENT; REQUIREMENTS ELICITATION; TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES;

REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING;

ABSTRACTING;

EID: 84870583552     PISSN: 09473602     EISSN: 1432010X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00766-011-0122-3     Document Type: Article

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