Understanding the implementation of IS-A relations

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 1157 LNCS, Issue , 1996, Pages 42-57

  Hainaut, J L ^a   Hick, J M ^a   Englebert, V ^a   Henrard, J ^a   Roland, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAMUR   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REVERSE ENGINEERING;

CONCEPTUAL MODEL; CONCEPTUAL MODELLING; DESIGN METHODOLOGY; EXPLICIT REPRESENTATION; PHYSICAL DESIGN; REVERSE ENGINEERING PROCESS; SCHEMA TRANSFORMATION; TRANSLATION RULES;

SEMANTICS;

EID: 38349154046     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/bfb0019914     Document Type: Conference Paper

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