Incremental changes add new functionality and properties to software. They are the core of software evolution, maintenance, iterative development, agile development, and similar s...
In this paper, we describe two mission critical applications currently deployed by Telecom Italia in the Operations Support System domains. The first one called "Network Neut...
Over the past few years, we are experiencing a surge of evolution problems related to legacy object-oriented systems. Object orientation provides means for systems to be well-desi...
In this paper, we propose the use of fine-grain process modelling as an aid to software development. We suggest the use of two levels of granularity, one at the level of the indiv...
Government bureaucracies are both extremely complex and long-lived, constantly evolving to reflect and influence their ever changing cultural and physical environments. Software s...