Toward an environment for comprehending distributed systems

Proceedings - Working Conference on Reverse Engineering, WCRE

Volumn 2003-January, Issue , 2003, Pages 238-247

  Salah, Maher ^a   Mancoridis, Spiros ^a  

^a Drexel University   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer architecture; Computer languages; Computer networks; Computer science; Data visualization; Distributed computing; Educational institutions; Instruments; Runtime; Software systems

Indexed keywords

C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER NETWORKS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; COMPUTER SCIENCE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATA VISUALIZATION; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER NETWORKS; INSTRUMENTS; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; REVERSE ENGINEERING;

COMPONENT-BASED MODELS; DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATIONS; EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS; LAYERED ARCHITECTURE; PRE-BUILT COMPONENTS; RUNTIMES; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; STATIC AND DYNAMIC ANALYSIS;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 84944608566     PISSN: 10951350     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WCRE.2003.1287254     Document Type: Conference Paper

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