Component-based tailorability: Enabling highly flexible software applications

International Journal of Human Computer Studies

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-22

  Wulf, Volker ^a,b   Pipek, Volkmar ^a   Won, Markus ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIEGEN   (Germany)

^b FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY FIT   (Germany)

^c International Institute for Socio Informatics   (Germany)

Author keywords

Component based systems; CSCW; End user development; Tailorability

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE; USER INTERFACES;

COMPONENT-BASED SYSTEMS; END USER DEVELOPMENT; RUN-TIME FLEXIBILITY; SOCIAL SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 36148990991     PISSN: 10715819     EISSN: 10959300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijhcs.2007.08.007     Document Type: Article

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