Abstractions for Software Architecture and Tools to Support Them

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 1995, Pages 314-335

  Shaw, Mary ^a   DeLine, Robert ^b   Zelesnik, Gregory ^b   Klein, Daniel V ^c   Ross, Theodore L ^d   Young, David M ^e  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Lone Wolf Systems ^*  (United States)

^d HEWLETT PACKARD COMPANY   (United States)

^e Madeira Software Inc ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

architectural abstraction; architecture description language; Software architecture; software engineering; software system organization

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURAL ABSTRACTION; ARCHITECTURE DESCRIPTION LANGUAGE; DATA FLOW; SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE; SOFTWARE SYSTEM ORGANIZATION;

ALGORITHMS; CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTATION THEORY; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; ENGINEERS; MAINTENANCE; SPECIFICATIONS;

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0029288830     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/32.385970     Document Type: Article

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