Includes bibliographical references and index.

Software evolution / Meir Lehman, Juan C. Fernández-Ramil -- A nontraditional view of the dimensions of software evolution / Dewayne E. Perry -- IT legacy systems : enabling environments that reduce the legacy problem : a complexity perspective / Eve Mitleton-Kelly -- Facets of software evolution / Roland T. Mittermeir -- Evolution in software systems: foundations of the SPE classification scheme / Stephen Cook, Rachel Harrison, Meir M. Lehman, Paul Wernick -- A simple model of software system evolutionary growth / Władysław M. Turski -- Statistical modelling of software evolution processes / Tetsuo Tamai, Takako Nakatani -- Software requirements changes due to external factors / Vic Nanda, Nazim H. Madhavji -- Understanding open source software evolution / Walt Scacchi -- Structural analysis of open source systems / Andrea Capiluppi, Maurizio Morisio, Juan C. Fernández-Ramil -- A study of software evolution at different levels of granularity / Elizabeth Burd -- The role of ripple effect in software evolution / Sue Black -- The impact of software-architecture compliance on system evolution / R. Mark Greenwood, Ken Mayes, Wykeen Seet, Brian C. Warboys, Dharini Balasubramaniam, Graham Kirby, Ron Morrison, Aled Sage -- Comparison of three evaluation methods for object-oriented framework evolution / Michael Mattsson -- Formal perspectives on software evolution : from refinement to retrenchment / Michael Poppleton, Lindsay Groves -- Background and approach to development of a theory of software evolution / Meir M. Lehman, Juan C. Fernández-Ramil -- Difficulties with feedback control in software processes / Meir M. Lehman, Dewayne E. Perry, Wlad Turski -- Governing software evolution through policy-oriented feedback / Nazim H. Madhavji, Josée Tassé -- Feedback in requirements discovery and specification : a quality gateway for testing requirements / Suzanne Robertson -- Requirements risk and software reliability / Norman F. Schneidewind -- Combining process feedback with discrete event simulation models to support software project management / David Raffo, Joseph Vandeville -- A feedforward capability to improve software reestimation / William W. Agresti -- Modelling the feedback part of the software process in software resource estimation / Juan C. Fernández-Ramil, Sarah Beecham -- Value-based feedback in software and information systems development / Barry Boehm, Liguo Huang -- Expert estimation of software development cost : learning through feedback / Magne Jørgensen, Dag Sjøberg -- Self-adaptive software : internalized feedback / Robert Laddaga, Paul Robertson, Howard Shrobe -- Rules and tools for software evolution planning and management / Meir M. Lehman, Juan C. Fernández-Ramil.