A Framework for Event-Based Software Integration

ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 378-421

  Barrett, Daniel J ^a,b   Clarke, Lori A ^a,b   Tarr, Peri L ^a,b   Wise, Alexander E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b Biologically Inspired Neural and Dynamical Systems Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

Control integration; CORBA; D.2 Software : Software Engineering; Event based systems; FIELD; Interoperability; Performance; Polylith; Reference model; Software integration; Theory

Indexed keywords

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; SUBROUTINES;

EVENT BASED INTEGRATION (EBI) FRAMEWORK; EVENT DRIVEN PROGRAMMING; SOFTWARE INTEGRATION;

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0030264523     PISSN: 1049331X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/235321.235324     Document Type: Article

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