A survey on model versioning approaches

International Journal of Web Information Systems

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 271-304

  Altmanninger, Kerstin ^a   Seidl, Martina ^b   Wimmer, Manuel ^b  

^a JOHANNES KEPLER UNIVERSITY LINZ   (Austria)

^b VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Control systems; Modelling

Indexed keywords

DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH; FUTURE MODELS; INTEGRAL COMPONENTS; LITERATURE STUDIES; MODEL-DRIVEN ENGINEERING; PARALLEL DEVELOPMENT; VERSION CONTROL SYSTEM; VERSIONING SYSTEMS;

MERGING; MODELS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 77954706380     PISSN: 17440084     EISSN: 1744092     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/17440080910983556     Document Type: Article

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