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An introduction to the DREAM software design system

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William E. Riddle,

John H. Sayler,

Alan R. Segal,

Jack C. WiledenAuthors Info & Claims

ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes, Volume 2, Issue 4

Pages 11 - 24

https://doi.org/10.1145/1010730.1010731

Published: 01 July 1977 Publication History

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We describe the underlying philosophy, the system organization and the design language of the Design Realization Evaluation And Modelling system, a prototype of a system being developed to aid software system designers.

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W. E. Riddle. An Approach to Software System Modelling, Behavior Specification and Analysis. RSSM25, Dept. Computer and Comm. Sciences, Univ. Of Michigan, July 1976.

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ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes Volume 2, Issue 4

July 1977

19 pages

ISSN:0163-5948

DOI:10.1145/1010730

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