Towards an Ontology of Software Maintenance

Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 365-389

  Kitchenham, Barbara A ^a,j   Travassos, Guilherme H ^b,k,l   Von Mayrhauser, Anneliese ^c,m,n   Niessink, Frank ^d   Schneidewind, Norman F ^e   Singer, Janice ^f,o   Takada, Shingo ^g   Vehvilainen, Risto ^h,p,q   Yang, Hongji ⁱ  

^a KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c Colorado State University   (United States)

^d VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^e NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

^f NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^g KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^h DPM Consulting Oy   (Finland)

ⁱ DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^j UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

^k FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^l COPPE Fed Univ of Rio de Janeiro ^*  (United States)

^m Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^o UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^p UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^q HANKEN SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Finland)

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Author keywords

Empirical research; Evolutionary maintenance; Independent maintenance groups; Maintenance factors; Maintenance ontology; Maintenance scenarios

Indexed keywords

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EVOLUTIONARY MAINTENANCE;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE;

EID: 0033364688     PISSN: 1532060X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1096-908x(199911/12)11:6<365::aid-smr200>3.0.co;2-w     Document Type: Article

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