Unanticipated partial behavioral reflection: Adapting applications at runtime

Computer Languages, Systems and Structures

Volumn 34, Issue 2-3, 2008, Pages 46-65

  Röthlisberger, David ^a   Denker, Marcus ^a   Tanter, Éric ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Metaobject protocol; Metaprogramming; Reflection; Smalltalk

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; PROGRAM DEBUGGING; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; WEB SERVICES;

BEHAVIORAL REFLECTION; METAOBJECT PROTOCOL; METAPROGRAMMING; PARTIAL BEHAVIORAL REFLECTION (PBR);

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

EID: 37349005154     PISSN: 14778424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cl.2007.05.001     Document Type: Article

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