An agent-oriented approach to change propagation in software evolution

Proceedings of the Australian Software Engineering Conference, ASWEC

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 309-318

  Dam, Khanh Hoa ^a   Winikoff, Michael ^a   Padgham, Lin ^a  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; CONSTRAINT THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METADATA; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING;

AUTOMATED CHANGE PROPAGATION; BELIEF DESIRE INTENTION (BDI) AGENT; CHANGE PROPAGATION PROCESS; OBJECT CONSTRAINT LANGUAGE (OCL) RULES; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE;

EID: 33750096422     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ASWEC.2006.10     Document Type: Conference Paper

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