Abstract Persistent Application Systems (PASs) are of increasing social and economic
importance. They have the potential to be long-lived, concurrently accessed, and consist of …

This paper examines the dimensions influencing the past and present and speculates on the
future of software deployment. Software deployment is a post-production activity that is …

Software that cannot evolve is condemned to atrophy: it cannot accommodate the constant
revision and re-negotiation of its business goals nor intercept the potential of new …

The ability of businesses to develop is frequently hampered by difficulties in changing
underlying software systems. An example is the need to change when business …

The work presented in this thesis seeks to improve programmer productivity in the following
ways:-by reducing the amount of code that has to be written to construct an application;-by …

The social and economic importance of large bodies of programs and data that are
potentially long-lived has attracted much attention in the commercial and research …

The term co-evolution describes the symbiotic relationship between dynamically changing
business environments and the software that supports them. Business changes create …

Persistent programming systems are designed as an implementation technology for long
lived, concurrently accessed and potentially large bodies of data and programs, known here …

Reflective systems allow their own structures to be altered from within. Here we are
concerned with a style of reflection, called linguistic reflection, which is the ability of a …

Businesses and their supporting software evolve to accommodate the constant revision and
re-negotiation of commercial goals, and to intercept the potential of new technology. We …