Complex and long-lived software need to be upgraded at runtime. Replacing a software component with a newer version is the basic evolution operation that has to be supported. It i...
Understanding the dynamics of technology evolution—whether for the purposes of forecasting new product or technology infrastructure developments, or identifying the basis for fu...
Gediminas Adomavicius, Jesse Bockstedt, Alok Gupta...
Industrial software projects are not based on a top-down development process relying on refinement but use a more iterative and incremental approach with respect to changing requ...
Databases are continuously evolving environments, where design constructs are added, removed or updated quite often. Research has extensively dealt with the problem of database evo...
George Papastefanatos, Panos Vassiliadis, Yannis V...
: Software evolves as requirements or technologies change. Tremendous efforts are often needed to support software evolution as evolution may involve reverse engineering and subseq...
Chung-Horng Lung, Qiang Zhao, Hui Xu, Heine Mar, P...