Patterns, symmetry, and symmetry breaking

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 40-46

  Zhao, Liping ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

CLASS SYMMETRY BREAKING; DESIGN PATTERNS;

PATTERN RECOGNITION;

EID: 40549114912     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: 15577317     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1325555.1325564     Document Type: Article

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