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On understanding laws, evolution, and conservation in the large-program life cycle
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Metadata
- Authors
- Lehman, M. M.
- Venue
- Journal of Systems and Software
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 1979-01
- Volume
- 1
- Pages
- 213-221
- ISSN
- 0164-1212 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1985236007
- Cited by
- 377
- References
- 5
- FWCI
- 2.42
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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