Visual notation design 2.0: Towards user comprehensible requirements engineering notations

2013 21st IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference, RE 2013 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 115-124

  Caire, Patrice ^a   Genon, Nicolas ^b   Heymans, Patrick ^b   Moody, Daniel L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LUXEMBOURG   (Luxembourg)

^b University of Namur   (Belgium)

^c Ozemantics Pty Ltd   (Australia)

Author keywords

Analysis; Empirical research; End user communication; Modelling; Requirements analysis; Visual languages

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION; MODELS; SEMANTICS; VISUAL LANGUAGES;

ANALYSIS; COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCES; EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; END USERS; REQUIREMENTS ANALYSIS; SEMANTIC TRANSPARENCIES;

REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING;

EID: 84891106807     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/RE.2013.6636711     Document Type: Conference Paper

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