Towards an ontology of software maintenance

BARBARA A. KITCHENHAM1∗, GUILHERME H. TRAVASSOS2, ANNELIESE VON MAYRHAUSER3, FRANK NIESSINK4, NORMAN F. SCHNEIDEWIND5, JANICE SINGER6, SHINGO TAKADA7, RISTO VEHVILAINEN8 and HONGJI YANG9 1Department of Computer Science, Keele University, Staffordshire, ST5 5BG, U.K. 2COPPE/UFRJ, BR and DCS/ESEG, University of Maryland, A. V. Williams Bldg., College Park MD 20742, U.S.A. 3Computer Science Department, Colorado State University, 601 S. Howes Lane, Fort Collins CO 80523-1873, U.S.A. 4Faculty of Sciences, Division of Mathematics and Computer Science, Vrije Universiteit, De Boelelaan 1018 A, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands 5Naval Postgraduate School, 2822 Racoon Trail, Pebble Beach CA 93953, U.S.A. 6Institute for Information Technology, National Research Council, Ottawa ON K1A 0R6, Canada 7Dept of Information and Computer Science, Faculty of Science and Technology, Keio University, 3-14-1 Hiyoshi, Kohoku-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 223-8522, Japan 8DPM Consulting Oy, Haukantie 21 A, 04320 Tuusula, Finland 9Computer Science Department, De Montfort University, Leicester, LE1 9BH, U.K.