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Development processes are inherently difficult to manage. Tools for managing development processes have to cope with continuous process evolution. The management system AHEAD is based on long-term experience gathered in different disciplines (software, mechanical, or chemical engineering). AHEAD provides an integrated set of tools for evolving both process definitions and their instances. AHEAD is based on graphs which are formally specified and manipulated by programmed graph transformations.
The work presented in this paper was carried out in the Collaborative Research Center IMPROVE, which is supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.
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Heller, M., Schleicher, A., Westfechtel, B. (2004). Graph-Based Specification of a Management System for Evolving Development Processes. In: Pfaltz, J.L., Nagl, M., Böhlen, B. (eds) Applications of Graph Transformations with Industrial Relevance. AGTIVE 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3062. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-25959-6_25
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