Exploiting architectural style to develop a family of applications

IEE Proceedings: Software

Volumn 144, Issue 5-6, 1997, Pages 237-248

  Medvidovic, N ^a   Taylor, R N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Application families; Architectural styles; Component based development; Constraint management; Graphical user interfaces (GUIs); Message based architectures

Indexed keywords

APPLICATIONS; ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; CONSTRAINT THEORY; MANAGEMENT;

ARCHITECTURAL STYLES;

GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES;

EID: 0031249350     PISSN: 14625970     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/ip-sen:19971608     Document Type: Article

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