A metamodelling-based approach for method fragment comparison

CEUR Workshop Proceedings

Volumn 364, Issue , 2006, Pages 57-70

  Cossentino, Massimo ^a   Gaglio, Salvatore ^a,b   Henderson Sellers, Brian ^c   Seidita, Valeria ^b  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

META MODEL; METHOD FRAGMENTS; SITUATIONAL METHOD ENGINEERING; STRUCTURAL COMPARISON;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

EID: 84885351016     PISSN: 16130073     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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