Flow diagrams: Rise and fall of the first software engineering notation

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4045 LNAI, Issue , 2006, Pages 130-144

  Morris, S J ^a   Gotel, O C Z ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b PACE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMMUNICATION; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; FORMAL LANGUAGES; FUNCTIONS; GRAPH THEORY; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; PLANNING;

AUTOMATED COMPUTATION; FLOW DIAGRAM; METALEVEL SYSTEMS; SYNTAX VARIANTS;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 33746210328     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11783183_17     Document Type: Conference Paper

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