This article surveys techniques used in structured and object-oriented software specification
methods. The techniques are classified as techniques for the specification of external …

What kind of knowledge is needed by information specialists working in a specific subject
field like medicine, sociology or music? What approaches have been used in information …

∎ Comprenderá las razones de los métodos de desarrollo ágil de software, el manifiesto
ágil, así como las diferencias entre el desarrollo ágil y el dirigido por un plan;∎ Conocerá …

Schema matching, the problem of finding map**s between the attributes of two
semantically related database schemas, is an important aspect of many database …

This paper describes NL-OOPS, a CASE tool that supports requirements analysis by
generating object oriented models from natural language requirements documents. The full …

Not for the faint of heart, this book transcends specific software design paradigms by
examining what makes a good design good. The discussion is mostly at a level of …

Software developers lament" If only software engineering could be more like X...", where X is
any design-intensive profession with a longer and apparently more successful history than …

Many strategic IT projects fail, meaning that organisations are unable to reap the benefits of
their IT investments to the fullest extent. One of the key reasons for this failure is the lack of …

In object-oriented conceptual modeling, the generalization/specialization hierarchy and the
whole/part relationship are prevalent classification schemes for object types. This paper …

Improved software processes lead to improved product quality. The Personal Software
Process (PSP) is a framework of techniques to help engineers improve their performance …