After more than 40 years of life, software evolution should be considered as a mature field.
However, despite such a long history, many research questions still remain open, and …

PURPOSE: The purpose of this paper is to characterize reconciliation among the plan-
driven, agile, and free/open source software models of software development. DESIGN …

The SPE taxonomy of evolving software systems, first proposed by Lehman in 1980, is re‐
examined in this work. The primary concepts of software evolution are related to generic …

Like all software systems, databases are subject to evolution as time passes. The impact of
this evolution can be vast as a change to the schema of a database can affect the syntactic …

Web services are black box dependency magnets. Hence, studying how they evolve is both
important and challenging. In this paper, we focus on one of the most successful stories of …

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to describe an optimization approach to maximize
collaboration in software process composition. The research question is: how to compose a …

Abstract A Software Process Line (SPrL) is potentially suitable for constructing software
development methodologies by reusing core assets. However, adopting this approach …

Process diversity arises as software processes are influenced by organization, project and
other contextual factors. Managing this diversity consists of considering how these factors …

Software process definition is a complex, time consuming and error prone activity. Such
activity can be facilitated by a process reuse strategy. This strategy can be implemented …

In this paper, we address the problem of modeling co-evolving peers in communities over
time. Our motivation comes from the area of software and schema evolution; however, we …