Analyzing software evolvability of an industrial automation control system: A case study

Proceedings - The 3rd International Conference on Software Engineering Advances, ICSEA 2008, Includes ENTISY 2008: International Workshop on Enterprise Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 205-213

  Breivold, Hongyu Pei ^a   Crnkovic, Ivica ^b   Land, Rikard ^b   Larsson, Magnus ^a  

^a ABB CORPORATE RESEARCH   (Sweden)

^b MÄLARDALEN UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; CONCURRENCY CONTROL; CONTROL SYSTEMS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

ANALYSIS PROCESSES; ANALYSIS RESULTS; ARCHITECTURAL LEVELS; CASE STUDIES; DEVELOPMENT COSTS; DO-MAINS; EARLY DESIGN PHASIS; EVOLVABILITY; INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATIONS; LIFE-CYCLE; SOFTWARE COMPLEXITIES; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS;

TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

EID: 57649211740     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSEA.2008.16     Document Type: Conference Paper

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