Chimera: Hypermedia for heterogeneous software development environments

ACM Transactions on Information Systems

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 211-245

  Anderson, Kenneth M ^a,c   Taylor, Richard N ^b   Whitehead Jr , E James ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UCB 450   (United States)

Author keywords

D.2.2 Software Engineering : Tools and Techniques; Design; H.5.1 Multimedia Information Systems ; Heterogeneous hypermedia; Hypermedia system architectures; I.7.2 Document Preparation : Hypertext Hypermedia; Link servers; Open hypermedia system

Indexed keywords

EID: 0003303121     PISSN: 10468188     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/352595.352596     Document Type: Article

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