An introduction to refinement metrics: assessing a programming language's support of the stepwise refinement process

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An introduction to refinement metrics: assessing a programming language's support of the stepwise refinement process

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Proceedings of the 1990 ACM annual conference on Cooperation table of contents

Washington, D.C., United States

Pages: 82 - 88

Year of Publication: 1990

ISBN:0-89791-348-5

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Robert G. Reynolds	Wayne Science University, Computer Science Department, Detriot, Mi
Jonathan I. Maletic	Wayne Science University, Computer Science Department, Detriot, Mi

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ACM: Association for Computing Machinery

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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	Steven E. Porvin , Robert G. Reynolds , Jonathan I. Maletic, An empirical study of the use of problem reduction as a paradigm for problem solving in software engineering, Proceedings of the 19th annual conference on Computer Science, p.618-629, April 1991, San Antonio, Texas, United States
	R. G. Reynolds , J. I. Maletic , S. E. Porvin, PM: A System to Support the Automatic Acquisition of Programming Knowledge, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, v.2 n.3, p.273-282, September 1990
	Robert G. Reynolds , Jonathan I. Maletic , Stephen E. Porvin, Stepwise Refinement and Problem Solving, IEEE Software, v.9 n.5, p.79-88, September 1992
	Robert G. Reynolds , Jonathan I. Maletic , Stephen E. Porvin, An object-oriented approach to the acquisition of software engineering knowledge, Proceedings of the 19th annual conference on Computer Science, p.78-84, April 1991, San Antonio, Texas, United States