Model-driven software development drastically alters the software development process, which is characterized by a high degree of innovation and productivity.

Emerging Technologies for the Evolution and Maintenance of Software Models contains original academic work about current research and research projects related to all aspects affecting the maintenance, evolution, and reengineering (MER), as well as long-term management, of software models. The mission of this book is to present a comprehensive and central overview of new and emerging trends in software model research and to provide concrete results from ongoing developments in the field.

Coverage:

The many academic areas covered in this publication include, but are not limited to:

Categorization of Software Models
Managing Software Models
Model-Driven Architectures
Model-Driven Software Evolution
Model-Driven Software Maintenance
Model-Driven Software Quality Assurance
Model-Driven Software Reengineering
Project Management of Model-Driven Software Development
Software Testing
Verification and Validation of Software Models

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This book will provide a valuable source of information and inspiration for researchers and practitioners alike. Readers of this book will learn a lot about the interplay between the fields of software evolution and software modeling, and will get a good general picture of the current state-of-the-art. I enjoyed reading this book, and I hope you will do so too. Happy reading!

– Tom Mens, Software Engineering Lab, University of Mons, Belgium

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Editor/Author Biographies

Jörg Rech is a Senior Scientist and Project Manager at SAP Research Center Karlsruhe. He received his Ph.D from the University of Hildesheim, Germany and his BSc (Vordiplom) and his MSc (Diplom) in computer science from the University of Kaiserslautern, Germany. Previously, he worked for Fraunhofer IESE in Kaiserslautern and the University of Kaiserslautern. His research mainly concerns model-driven software development, quality defect diagnosis, refactoring, software analysis, intelligent assistance, semantic technologies, and knowledge management. He has published a number of papers, mainly on software engineering and knowledge management topics.

Christian Bunse is currently with the University of Applied Sciences Stralsund, working in the field of software systems. He received his PhD in computer science from the Technical University of Kaiserslautern, Germany and his BSc (Vordiplom) and Msc (Diplom) in Computer Science with a minor in medicine from the Technical University of Dortmund, Germany. His research interests are in the area of model-driven development, resource-aware software systems, and energy efficiency. Christian authored several international journal articles, books, book chapters, and refereed conference papers that focus on software engineering, model-based development, and quality assurance. In addition, Christian served as a PC member and organizer of international workshops and conferences. He is a member of the German Computer Society (GI) and works actively in several of the GI’s working groups.

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Editorial Advisory Board

A. Cicchetti, Malardalen University, Sweden
A. Pierantonio, University of L’Aquila, Italy
Andrea Herrmann, University Heidelberg, Germany
Anne Keller, University of Antwerp, Belgium
Ayse Morali, Ascure N.V., Belgium
Bernhard Schätz, fortiss, Germany
Berthold Agreiter, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Bogumila Hnatkowska, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland
Charles-georges Guillemot, UHA, MIPS Laboratory and Haute Alsace University, France
Christian Bunse, University of Applied Sciences Stralsund, Germany
Christian Seel, Software AG, Germany
Claudia Pereira, UNICEN University, Argentina
Colin Atkinson, University of Mannheim, Germany
D. Di Ruscio, University of L’Aquila, Italy
D.S. Kolovos, The University of York, UK
Dima Panfilenko, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Germany
Emilio Salazar, Technical University of Madrid, Spain
Florian Barth, University of Mannheim, Germany
Frederic Fondement, UHA, MIPS Laboratory and Haute Alsace University, France
Gerti Kappel, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Helmut Krcmar, Technical University Munich, Germany
Ignacio García-Rodríguez de Guzmán, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
Iwona Dubielewicz, Institute of Informatics, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland
Javier Fernandez-Briones, Technical University of Madrid, Spain
Jeff Gray, University of Alabama, USA
Jörg Rech, SAP Research Center Karlsruhe, Germany
Juan P. Silva, Technical University of Madrid, Spain
Jules White, Virginia Tech, USA
Keith Phalp, Bournemouth University, United Kingdom
Konrad Wieland, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Lech Tuzinkiewicz, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland
Liliana Favre, UNICEN University, Tandil, Argentina
Liliana Martinez, UNICEN University, Tandil, Argentina
Manfred Broy, Technical University Munich, Germany
Manuel Wimmer, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Mario Piattini, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
Martina Seidl, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
Matthias Riebisch, Ilmenau University of Technology, Germany
Michael Felderer, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Michel Hassenforder, UHA, MIPS Laboratory and Haute Alsace University, France
Miguel A. De Miguel, Technical University of Madrid, Spain
Petra Brosch, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Philip Langer, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
Qurat-ul-ann Farooq, Ilmenau University of Technology, Germany
Ricardo Pérez-Castillo, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
Ruth Breu, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Sascha Kirstan, Altran Technologies, Germany
Serge Demeyer, University of Antwerp, Belgium
Sheridan Jeary, Bournemouth University, United Kingdom
Steffen Lehnert, Ilmenau University of Technology, Germany
Yu Sun, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
Zbigniew Huzar, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland