Digital Library

Topics: System of Systems

This report contains a set of papers that focus on overcoming barriers to adopting research tools. The papers were presented at the Third International Workshop on Adoption-centric Software Engineering (ACSE).

This 1999 report highlights some of the most important reasons for failures in reengineering efforts despite the best of intentions.

Topics: Software Product Lines

This report synthesizes the 1998 product line workshop presentations and discussions that described selected product line practices and identified barriers and enablers to achieving these practices within the DoD.

This 1998 report describes a framework for reverse-engineering environments used to aid program understanding.

This report highlights important developments in program-understanding work in 1997 and outlines some of the opportunities in the field in 1998.

Topics: System of Systems

This report outlines a comprehensive system evolution approach that incorporates an enterprise framework for the application of the promising technologies in the context of legacy systems.

This 1997 report describes the STEP '97 conference, overviews the Net-Centric Computing workshop, and provides a summary of the invited presentations.

This 1997 report describes investigations into DISCOVER, a modern software development and maintenance environment.

This 1997 report provides definitions of various software evolution concepts and a taxonomy of activities.

This report outlines the basic issues of the so-called "Year 2000" (Y2K) problem and discusses some of its implications.

This report identifies some of the emerging technologies in program understanding, which is the process of acquiring knowledge about a software artifact through analysis, abstraction,and generalization.