Reuse of scenario specifications using an automated relational learner: A lightweight approach

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Requirements Engineering

Volumn 2002-January, Issue , 2002, Pages 173-180

  Woo, Han G ^a   Robinson, William N ^a  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Application software; Bridges; Information retrieval; Information systems; Jacobian matrices; Object oriented databases; Object oriented modeling; Relational databases; Software engineering; Unified modeling language

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROGRAMS; AUTOMATION; BRIDGES; GRAPHIC METHODS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; JACOBIAN MATRICES; MODELING LANGUAGES; OBJECT-ORIENTED DATABASES; RELATIONAL DATABASE SYSTEMS; REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING; SEARCH ENGINES; SEMANTICS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SPECIFICATIONS; UNIFIED MODELING LANGUAGE;

AUTOMATED TECHNIQUES; GRAPH-BASED; OBJECT ORIENTED MODEL; OBJECT ORIENTED TECHNOLOGIES; RELATIONAL DATABASE; SCENARIO SPECIFICATION; SOFTWARE ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE MODEL;

OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING;

EID: 84873150156     PISSN: 1090705X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICRE.2002.1048520     Document Type: Conference Paper

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