Awareness widgets facilitate coordination for both synchronous and asynchronous
groupware systems. Unfortunately, they cannot be used for multi-synchronous groupware …

In the context of cooperative work a team alternates divergence phases where each member
works in insulation on copies of objects and convergence phases during which the group …

The development of products in disciplines such as mechanical, electrical, or software
engineering is a challenging task. Costs have to be reduced, the ti-to-market has to be …

This paper examines the relations between software architecture and software configuration
management. These disciplines overlap because they are both concerned with the structure …

In the recent years, due to the emergence of new models of production based on
collaboration, collaborative writing tools started to be increasingly used by various …

Tools like SourceForge or BSCW have popularized virtual teams through the web. They
allow people to work together distributed across space, time and organization. A member of …

Change management is a core problem of software development. Management of changes
means managing the process of change as well as managing all artifkcts of an evolving …

This paper presents an overview of the knowledge area of software configuration
management (SCM) for the Guide to the Software Engineering Body of Knowledge …

This paper describes a model, denoted architectural software configuration management,
that minimises the gap between software design and configuration management by allowing …

The architecture is the fundamental framework designing and implementing large scale
software, and the ability to trace and control its evolution is essential. However, many …