Software Reuse

ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 1992, Pages 131-183

  Krueger, Charles W ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

abstraction; cognitive distance; software reuse

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACTING; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; HIGH LEVEL LANGUAGES; INDEXING (OF INFORMATION); INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; QUERY LANGUAGES; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; USER INTERFACES;

PROGRAM SYNTHESIS; PROGRAM TRANSFORMATION; PROGRAMMER WORKBENCH; SEARCH PROCESS; SELECTION PROCESS; SOFTWARE LIBRARIES; SOFTWARE REUSE; SPECIALIZED APPLICATION LANGUAGES;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 0026873608     PISSN: 03600300     EISSN: 15577341     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/130844.130856     Document Type: Article

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