Requirements elicitation: Towards the unknown unknowns

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

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 92-104

  Sutcliffe, Alistair ^a   Sawyer, Pete ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Common ground; Models; Requirements elicitation; Tacit knowledge; Techniques

Indexed keywords

DATA MINING; MAPS; MODEL CHECKING; MODELS; REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING; SURVEYS;

COLLABORATION SUPPORT; COMMON GROUND; ELICITATION TECHNIQUES; MODEL CHECKING TOOLS; REQUIREMENTS ELICITATION; REQUIREMENTS SPECIFICATIONS; TACIT KNOWLEDGE; TECHNIQUES;

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84891141749     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/RE.2013.6636709     Document Type: Conference Paper

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