Object-oriented patterns: Lessons from expert systems

Software - Practice and Experience

Volumn 27, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 1457-1478

  Menzies, Tim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Expert systems; Knowledge level modelling; OO patterns

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; EXPERT SYSTEMS;

KNOWLEDGE LEVEL MODELING; OBJECT ORIENTED PATTERNS;

OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING;

EID: 0031367871     PISSN: 00380644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-024X(199712)27:12<1457::AID-SPE140>3.0.CO;2-9     Document Type: Article

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