A dynamic runtime coupling metric for meta-level architectures

Proceedings of the European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering, CSMR

Volumn 8, Issue , 2004, Pages 339-346

  Hassoun, Youssef ^a   Johnson, Roger ^a   Counsell, Steve ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; DATA STRUCTURES; FORMAL LOGIC; HIGH LEVEL LANGUAGES; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; SPECIFICATIONS; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

DOWN CASTING; DYNAMIC RUNTIME COUPLING; META LEVEL ARCHITECTURES; RUN TIME TYPE INFORMATION (RTTI);

OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING;

EID: 3042771389     PISSN: 15345351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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