STEP, XML, and UML: Complementary technologies

Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 379-390

  Peak, Russell S ^a   Lubell, Joshua ^b   Srinivasan, Vjay ^c   Waterbury, Stephen C ^d  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c IBM   (United States)

^d NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROTOCOLS (AP); SIMPLE OBJECT ACCESS PROTOCOL (SOAP); STANDARD FOR THE EXCHANGE OF PRODUCT MODEL DATA (STEP); UNIFIED MODELING LANGUAGE (UML);

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; DATA ACQUISITION; INFORMATION USE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; WORLD WIDE WEB; XML;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 13444266120     PISSN: 15309827     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.1818683     Document Type: Article

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