Experiments with an architecture for reflective middleware

Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 313-325

  Costa, Fábio M ^a   Blair, Gordon S ^a   Coulson, Geoff ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; MOBILE COMPUTING; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING;

REFLECTIVE MIDDLEWARE;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 0033651986     PISSN: 10692509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/ica-2000-7404     Document Type: Article

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