Goal-Based Reasoned Construction of Taxonomies for the Selection of COTS Products
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In a previous work, our research group has proposed the construction of a taxonomy for classifying COTS by means of characterization attributes to arrange domains which COTS products belong to, and also grouping these domains into categories. In this paper we presented our first applicability study of GBRAM (Goal Based-Requirements Analysis Method) as a goal-based reasoning method for the construction of taxonomies of COTS; more concretely for exploring the “characterization attributes” that are used to browse the taxonomy. We illustrate the main aspects of customizing GBRAM to this objective and remark the formal aspect we want to achieve in our future work: to propose guidelines for the construction of any taxonomy of COTS.
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