Digital Library

Topics: System of Systems

Authors: Jens-Holger Jahnke (University of Victoria), Marin Litoiu (IBM Canada Ltd.), Hausi A. Muller (University of Victoria), Dennis B. Smith, Margaret-Anne Storey (University of Victoria), Scott R. Tilley (Florida Institute of Technoloy), Kenny Wong (University of Alberta), Anke Weber (University of Victoria), Robert Balzer (Teknowledge Corporation)

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).

Authors: John K. Bergey, Dennis B. Smith, Scott R. Tilley (Florida Institute of Technoloy), Nelson W. Weiderman, Steve Woods

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

Topics: Software Product Lines

Authors: John K. Bergey, Robert W. Krut, Jr., Paul C. Clements, Sholom G. Cohen, Patrick Donohoe, Lawrence G. Jones, Linda M. Northrop, Scott R. Tilley (Florida Institute of Technoloy), Dennis B. Smith, James Withey

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.

Authors: Scott R. Tilley (Florida Institute of Technoloy)

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

Authors: Scott R. Tilley (Florida Institute of Technoloy)

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

Authors: Nelson W. Weiderman, Dennis B. Smith, Scott R. Tilley (Florida Institute of Technoloy)

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.

Authors: Scott R. Tilley (Florida Institute of Technoloy), Margaret-Anne Storey (University of Victoria)

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

Authors: Scott R. Tilley (Florida Institute of Technoloy)

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

Authors: Nelson W. Weiderman, Linda M. Northrop, Dennis B. Smith, Scott R. Tilley (Florida Institute of Technoloy), Kurt C. Wallnau

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

Authors: Dennis B. Smith, Hausi A. Muller (University of Victoria), Scott R. Tilley (Florida Institute of Technoloy)

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

Authors: Scott R. Tilley (Florida Institute of Technoloy), Dennis B. Smith

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.