Towards a Generic Framework for Evaluating Component-Based Software Architectures

Lecture Notes in Informatics (LNI), Proceedings - Series of the Gesellschaft fur Informatik (GI)

Volumn P-57, Issue , 2004, Pages 163-179

  Becker, Steffen ^a   Firus, Viktoria ^a   Giesecke, Simon ^a   Hasselbring, Willi ^a   Overhage, Sven ^b   Reussner, Ralf H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUGSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURAL VIEWS; COMPONENT-BASED SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE; DESIGN OF SOFTWARES; EVALUATING SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURES; EVALUATION METHODS; GENERIC FRAMEWORKS; SOFTWARE-SYSTEMS; SYSTEM CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 28044457048     PISSN: 16175468     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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