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Foundations of Software Engineering archive
Proceedings of the third international workshop on Software architecture table of contents

Orlando, Florida, United States

Pages: 163 - 166

Year of Publication: 1998

ISBN:1-58113-081-3

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Jianjun Zhao

Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Fukuoka, Japan

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SIGSOFT: ACM Special Interest Group on Software Engineering
SIGPLAN: ACM Special Interest Group on Programming Languages

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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