Engineering a library of reusable conceptual components

Information and Software Technology

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 65-76

  Castano, Silvana ^a   De Antonellis, Valeria ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Component affinity; Component clustering; Domain analysis and engineering; Information system design; Reusable conceptual components; Schema descriptors

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; DESIGN; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

COMPONENT AFFINITY; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; SCHEMA DESCRIPTORS;

LIBRARIES;

EID: 0031078218     PISSN: 09505849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0950-5849(96)01127-5     Document Type: Article

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