† We present empirical evidence that metrics on communication artifacts generated by groupware tools can be used to gain significant insight into the development process that pro...
Abstract - In this paper we address a question highly relevant for many companies developing and implementing ERP or other software internationally. These companies have to integra...
Up to 75% of the costs associated with the development of software systems occur post-deployment during maintenance and evolution. Software refactoring is a process which can sign...
Legacy systems are often business critical and are associated with high maintenance costs. In this paper, we present an overview of a method, Renaissance, which aims to manage the...
Abstract. Agent-Oriented Software Engineering (AOSE) methodologies are proposed to develop complex distributed systems based upon the agent paradigm. The natural implementation for...