Understanding program dependencies in a computer program is essential for many software engineering activities including program slicing, testing, debugging, reverse engineering, and maintenance. In this paper, we present a dependence-based representation called multithreaded dependence graph, which extends previous dependence-based representations, to represent program dependencies in a concur...

Optimal operation and maintenance of engineering systems heavily rely on the accurate prediction of their failures. Most engineering systems, especially mechanical systems, are susceptible to failure interactions. These failure interactions can be estimated for repairable engineering systems when determining optimal maintenance strategies for these systems. An extended Split System Approach is ...

Experience-based continuous learning is an essential for improving methods, techniques, and tools in a discipline such as software engineering. This can be facilitated by capturing and managing the experience in a repository. Since we have to handle a “continuous stream of experience,” such a repository requires maintenance. This maintenance is a challenge: It should not simply happen ad-hoc, b...

Experience-based continuous learning is essential for improving products, processes, and technologies in emerging as well as established areas of business and engineering science. This can be facilitated by case-based organizational learning through capturing relevant experience in the form of cases for reuse in a corporate experience repository. For obvious reasons, learning from experience ne...

We address a novel integrated maintenance and production scheduling problem in a multi-machine and multi-period production system, considering maintenance as a long-term decision. Deterioration of machines over time decreases production capacity. Since maintenance activities improve machine conditions, increasing production capacity, but also take time that cannot be used for production, the ch...

We report on the development of a software engineering programme for Masters students. Maintainability of educational programmes is critical: there is a large initial investment in developing quality programmes and we must ensure that these programmes are “future proof”. Consequently, we followed a traditional software engineering lifecycle process to develop a programme that would meet the cur...

This report summarizes the current state of research and practice in the area of software maintenance with a particular emphasis on remote software maintenance. We summarize models and processes used in classical software maintenance and remote software maintenance. Then, we describe approaches and tools in software-fault monitoring using two different taxonomies. Concluding, we identify resear...

The paper proposes a preventive maintenance (PM) planning model for the performance improvement of cellular manufacturing systems (CMS) in terms of machine reliability, and resource utilization. In a CMS, parts are processed by a group of interdependent machines, where machine reliability plays an important role in the performance improvement of the cell. Assuming that machine failure times fol...

The development and economic growth of a nation is closely related to its available transportation system. Good and efficient road transport infrastructure facilities will promote industrial and socio-economic development. To provide safety and comfort to road users, a comprehensive road maintenance schedule must be formulated and adopted to ensure those roads are in good condition at all times...

A report is made on an experience of teaching a senior-year course on software maintenance, centered around a maintenance project. For the course, students organized themselves into groups and worked on adaptive and perfective maintenance of selected real-world software products. The projects involved such issues as code understanding, requirements engineering, and maintenance design, and dealt...