Using Metalevel Techniques in a Flexible Toolkit for CSCW Applications

ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 109-155

  Dourish, Paul ^a  

^a PALO ALTO RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Consistency control; consistency guarantees; data distribution; Design; divergency; Human Factors; Languages; metalevel programming; open implementation; software architecture

Indexed keywords

EID: 48749095554     PISSN: 10730516     EISSN: 15577325     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/287675.287676     Document Type: Article

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