Mainstreaming and industrialising agent technologies requires suitable methodological and technological support for the various engineering activities associated with managing the...
This paper proposes a model of successful maintenance that can represent how maintainability of each software module changes as it ages. We found that some of the metrics, measured...
This study reports results from an empirical study of 54 software maintainers in the software maintenance department of a Norwegian company. The study addresses the relationship b...
A legacy system is an operational, large-scale software system that is maintained beyond its first generation of programmers. It typically represents a massive economic investmen...
Kostas Kontogiannis, Renato de Mori, Morris Bernst...
There is a need for mechanisms for maintaining and restoring software integrity on deployed systems. Dynamic replacement, removal and addition of components in deployed systems is...