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Describing Similar Control Flows for Families of Problem-Solving Methods

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Knowledge Acquisition, Modeling and Management (EKAW 1999)

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Abstract

A library of software components should be essentially more than just a juxtaposition of its items. For problem-solving methods the notion of a family is suggested as means to cluster the items and to provide partially a structure of the library. This paper especially investigates how the similar control flows of the members of such a family can be described in one framework.

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Perkuhn, R. (1999). Describing Similar Control Flows for Families of Problem-Solving Methods. In: Fensel, D., Studer, R. (eds) Knowledge Acquisition, Modeling and Management. EKAW 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 1621. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48775-1_27

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