ITS: A Tool for Rapidly Developing Interactive Applications

ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 1990, Pages 204-236

  Wiecha, Charles ^a   Bennett, William ^a   Boies, Stephen ^a   Gould, John ^a   Greene, Sharon ^b  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER INTERFACES--MANAGEMENT; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING;

FOUR-LAYER ARCHITECTURE; USER INTERFACES;

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 0025451650     PISSN: 10468188     EISSN: 15582868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/98188.98194     Document Type: Article

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