Reengineering legacy systems for distributed environments

Journal of Systems and Software

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 37-55

  Serrano, Miguel A ^a   Carver, Doris L ^b   Montes de Oca, Carlos ^a  

^a AC (CIMAT)   (Mexico)

^b Louisiana State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributed systems; Legacy systems; Reengineering

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); LEGACY SYSTEMS; REENGINEERING;

DISTRIBUTED OBJECT SYSTEMS;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 0037110432     PISSN: 01641212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0164-1212(02)00020-1     Document Type: Article

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