Reasoning about Java Classes (Preliminary Report)

SIGPLAN Notices (ACM Special Interest Group on Programming Languages)

Volumn 33, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 329-340

  Jacobs, Bart ^a   Van Den Berg, Joachim ^a   Huisman, Marieke ^a   Van Berkum, Martijn ^a   Hensel, Ulrich ^b   Tews, Hendrik ^b  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

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EID: 0348137518     PISSN: 03621340     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/286942.286973     Document Type: Article

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