Optimal selection of operationalizations for non-functional requirements

Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology Series

Volumn 143, Issue , 2013, Pages 69-78

  Affleck, Amy ^a   Krishna, Aneesh ^a   Achuthan, Narasimaha R ^b  

^a Department of Computing ^*  (India)

^b CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

NFR Framework; Non Functional Requirements; Optimisation; Requirements Engineering; Simulation

Indexed keywords

OPTIMIZATION; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

FUNCTIONAL REQUIREMENT; NFR FRAMEWORK; NON-FUNCTIONAL REQUIREMENTS; OPTIMISATION MODELS; OPTIMISATIONS; QUANTITATIVE REASONING; REQUIREMENTS ELICITATION; SIMULATION;

REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING;

EID: 85013894176     PISSN: 14451336     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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