Service feature modeling: modeling and participatory ranking of service design alternatives

Software and Systems Modeling

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 553-578

  Wittern, Erik ^a   Zirpins, Christian ^a  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Multi criteria feature configuration decisions; Participatory design; Service variation modeling; Software service engineering

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

DESIGN OF SOFTWARES; FEATURE CONFIGURATION; FEATURE-ORIENTED ANALYSIS; MODELING NOTATION; PARTICIPATORY DESIGN; PARTICIPATORY METHODS; SOFTWARE SERVICES; VARIATION MODELS;

DESIGN;

EID: 84901542044     PISSN: 16191366     EISSN: 16191374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10270-014-0414-4     Document Type: Article

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