Meta-CASE: Is the game worth the candle?

Information Systems Journal

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 41-68

  Ter Hofstede, A H M ^a,c   Verhoef, T F ^b,c,d,e  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b ID Research   (Netherlands)

^c Software Engineering Research Centre   (Netherlands)

^d DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^e ID Research

Author keywords

CASE shell; Computer aided software engineering (CASE); Early phases; Meta modelling

Indexed keywords

CASE; INFORMATION SYSTEM; SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 0029767316     PISSN: 13501917     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2575.1996.00103.x     Document Type: Article

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