Model-based a-posteriori integration of engineering tools for incremental development processes

Software and Systems Modeling

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 123-140

  Becker, Simon M ^a   Haase, Thomas ^a   Westfechtel, Bernhard ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

A posteriori integration; Graph transformation; Incremental consistency management; Software architecture; UML; Wrapping

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); XML;

APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE (API); GRAPH TRANSFORMATION; INCREMENTAL CONSISTENCY MANAGEMENT; SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE; UML;

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 19644384371     PISSN: 16191366     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10270-004-0071-0     Document Type: Article

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