A hierarchy-aware approach to faceted classification of object-oriented components

ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 215-262

  Damiani, E ^a   Fugini, M G ^b   Bellettini, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

H.3.3 Information Storage and Retrieval : Information Search and Retrieval

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000976981     PISSN: 1049331X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/310663.310665     Document Type: Article

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