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Linux as a case study: its extracted software architecture

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International Conference on Software Engineering archive
Proceedings of the 21st international conference on Software engineering table of contents

Los Angeles, California, United States

Pages: 555 - 563

Year of Publication: 1999

ISBN:1-58113-074-0

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Ivan T. Bowman	Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1, Canada
Richard C. Holt	Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1, Canada
Neil V. Brewster	Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A4, Canada

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IEEE-CS : Computer Society
IEEE-CS\TCSE : TC on Software Engineering
SIGADA: ACM Special Interest Group on Ada Programming Language
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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