Context-oriented programming: A software engineering perspective

Journal of Systems and Software

Volumn 85, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1801-1817

  Salvaneschi, Guido ^a,b   Ghezzi, Carlo ^b   Pradella, Matteo ^b  

^a DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Context; Context awareness; Context oriented programming

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROGRAMS; MODULAR CONSTRUCTION; UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING;

CONTEXT; CONTEXT AWARE APPLICATIONS; CONTEXT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; CONTEXT- AWARENESS; CONTEXT-AWARE SYSTEMS; DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATIONS; ENGINEERING PERSPECTIVE; MOBILE AND UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING;

USER INTERFACES;

EID: 84861345286     PISSN: 01641212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2012.03.024     Document Type: Article

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