Software component models

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 33, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 709-724

  Lau, Kung Kiu ^a   Wang, Zheng ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Component composition; Component life cycle; Component semantics; Component syntax; Software component models; Software components

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE REUSABILITY; COSTS; SEMANTICS; SYNTACTICS; TAXONOMIES;

COMPONENT-BASED DEVELOPMENT; COMPOSITION MECHANISM; SOFTWARE COMPONENT MODEL;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 34648817307     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSE.2007.70726     Document Type: Article

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