Some theoretical considerations for a suite of metrics for the integration of software components

Information Sciences

Volumn 177, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 844-864

  Lakshmi Narasimhan, V ^a   Hendradjaya, B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Component assembly; Component Based Software Engineering; CORBA Component Model; Software component metrics

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; QUALITY CONTROL;

COMPONENT ASSEMBLY; COMPONENT BASED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; CORBA COMPONENT MODEL; SOFTWARE COMPONENT METRICS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 33750708203     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2006.07.010     Document Type: Article

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