Managing the complexity of large free and open source package-based software distributions

Proceedings - 21st IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, ASE 2006

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 199-208

  Mancinelli, Fabio ^a   Boender, Jaap ^a   Di Cosmo, Roberto ^a   Vouillon, Jérôme ^a   Durak, Berke ^b   Leroy, Xavier ^b   Treinen, Ralf ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^b INRIA ROCQUENCOURT   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AD HOC NETWORKS; FILE EDITORS; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; OPEN SYSTEMS;

AD-HOC TOOLS; FREE AND OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE (FOSS); SUPPORT DISTRIBUTION EDITORS;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 34547484783     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ASE.2006.49     Document Type: Conference Paper

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