Visual Languages for the design and development of structured objects

Journal of Visual Languages and Computing

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 57-84

  Smedley, Trevor J ^a   Cox, Philip T ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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EID: 0031066372     PISSN: 1045926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jvlc.1996.0028     Document Type: Article

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