A Semantic-Based Approach to Component Retrieval

Data Base for Advances in Information Systems

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 8-24

  Sugumaran, Vijayan ^a   Storey, Veda C ^b  

^a OAKLAND UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Component based development; domain model; ontology; reuse repository; systems development

Indexed keywords

EID: 8444243848     PISSN: 00950033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/937742.937745     Document Type: Article

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