Re-engineering security as a crosscutting concern

Computer Journal

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 578-589

  Welch, Ian S ^a   Stroud, Robert J ^b  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; SERVERS;

ADVANCED SEPARATION OF CONCERNS; HYPERTEXT DOCUMENT SERVER;

REENGINEERING;

EID: 0041409715     PISSN: 00104620     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/comjnl/46.5.578     Document Type: Article

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