Strategy for database application evolution: The DB-MAIN approach

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 2813, Issue , 2003, Pages 291-306

  Hick, Jean Marc ^a   Hainaut, Jean Luc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAMUR   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; REVERSE ENGINEERING;

DATABASE APPLICATIONS; DATABASE ENGINEERING; MANAGEMENT TECHNOLOGIES; PROGRAM MODIFICATIONS; REQUIREMENTS CHANGE; REVERSE ENGINEERING TECHNIQUES; SCHEMA TRANSFORMATION; STANDARD INFORMATION;

OBJECT-ORIENTED DATABASES;

EID: 0142188040     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-39648-2_24     Document Type: Article

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