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A specification schema for software connectors

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A specification schema for software connectors. / Slotos, Thomas.
CBSE 2014 - Proceedings of the 17th International ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on Component-Based Software Engineering (Part of CompArch 2014): Proceedings of the 17th International ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on Component-Based Software Engineering (part of CompArch 2014). ed. / The Association for Computing Machinery. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 2014. p. 139-147 (CBSE 2014 - Proceedings of the 17th International ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on Component-Based Software Engineering (Part of CompArch 2014)).

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Slotos, T 2014, A specification schema for software connectors. in TAFCM (ed.), CBSE 2014 - Proceedings of the 17th International ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on Component-Based Software Engineering (Part of CompArch 2014): Proceedings of the 17th International ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on Component-Based Software Engineering (part of CompArch 2014). CBSE 2014 - Proceedings of the 17th International ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on Component-Based Software Engineering (Part of CompArch 2014), Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, pp. 139-147, 17th International ACM Sigsoft Symposium on Component-Based Software Engineering CBSE 2014, Lille, France, 30.06.14. https://doi.org/10.1145/2602458.2602464

APA

Slotos, T. (2014). A specification schema for software connectors. In T. A. F. C. M. (Ed.), CBSE 2014 - Proceedings of the 17th International ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on Component-Based Software Engineering (Part of CompArch 2014): Proceedings of the 17th International ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on Component-Based Software Engineering (part of CompArch 2014) (pp. 139-147). (CBSE 2014 - Proceedings of the 17th International ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on Component-Based Software Engineering (Part of CompArch 2014)). Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. https://doi.org/10.1145/2602458.2602464

Vancouver

Slotos T. A specification schema for software connectors. In TAFCM, editor, CBSE 2014 - Proceedings of the 17th International ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on Component-Based Software Engineering (Part of CompArch 2014): Proceedings of the 17th International ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on Component-Based Software Engineering (part of CompArch 2014). Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. 2014. p. 139-147. (CBSE 2014 - Proceedings of the 17th International ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on Component-Based Software Engineering (Part of CompArch 2014)). doi: 10.1145/2602458.2602464

Bibtex

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