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Trang 2Object Oriented Software Technologies in Telecommunications: From theory to practice.
Edited by Iakovos Venieris, Fabrizio Zizza and Thomas Magedanz
Copyright © 2000 John Wiley & Sons Ltd Print ISBN 0-471-62379-2 Electronic ISBN 0-470-84186-9
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