A Metadatabase-supported shell for distributed processing and systems integration

Knowledge-Based Systems

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 672-680

  Babin, Gilbert ^a   Cheung, Waiman ^b  

^a HEC MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Distributed Enterprise Information Systems; Metadatabase; Systems integration

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER NETWORKS; DATA STRUCTURES; FILE ORGANIZATION; INFORMATION SCIENCE; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METADATA; SHELLS (STRUCTURES);

COMPUTER NETWORKING; DISTRIBUTED ENTERPRISE INFORMATION SYSTEMS; METADATABASE; SYSTEMS INTEGRATION; SYSTEMS INTEGRATIONS;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 51149100135     PISSN: 09507051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.knosys.2008.03.024     Document Type: Article

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