Customizable middleware for modular distributed software

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 99-107

  Astley, Mark ^b   Sturman, Daniel C ^b   Agha, Gul A ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b NONE

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EID: 0037518230     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/374308.374365     Document Type: Article

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