The Draco Approach to Constructing Software from Reusable Components

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn SE-10, Issue 5, 1984, Pages 564-574

  Neighbors, James M ^a  

^a CXC Corporation ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Analysis; automatic programming; design; Index Term; module interconnection languages; program generation; program refinement; program transformations; reusable software; software components

Indexed keywords

REUSABLE SOFTWARE;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 0021494931     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSE.1984.5010280     Document Type: Article

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