Abstract. Software must be constantly adapted to changing requirehe time scale, abstraction level and granularity of adaptations may vary from short-term, fine-grained adaptation t...
—Dynamic software updating research efforts have mostly been focused on updating application code and in-memory state. As more and more applications use embedded databases for st...
—Much of modern software development consists of building on older changes. Older periods provide the structure (e.g., functions and data types) on which changes in future period...
The FreeBSD operating system more than doubled in size between version 2 and version 4. Many changes to primary modularity are easy to spot at a high-level. For example, new devic...
Component recovery and remodularization is a means to get back control on large and complex legacy systems suffering from ad-hoc changes by recovering logical components and restr...