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Enterprise networks: The re-engineering of complex software systems

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Today technology design can no longer be understood as a design process on a ‘green site’. Design and implementation of new technology are always dependent on existing technology and the way it is used by people. In this respect Software-Engineering has also changed to the characteristics of ‘normal’ technology design taking into account existing computer systems. Experiences show that the conditions and needs of such Software-Reengineering projects are highly complex and differ in their special characteristics ranging from aspects of quality of existing system documentation to organizational structures of the computer departments concerned. The Task-Artifact Cycle presented here gives a suitable reengineering approach emphasizing both analysis and design in Software-Reengineering.

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  1. Department of Computer Science in Mechanical Engineering (HDZ/1MA), University of Technology (RWTH), D-52056, Aachen, Germany

    Horst Kesselmeier, Inga Tschiersch & Klaus Henning

  2. sd&m, München

    Beate Stoffels & Sebastian Kutscha

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Kesselmeier, H., Tschiersch, I., Henning, K. et al. Enterprise networks: The re-engineering of complex software systems. AI & Soc 12, 55–63 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01179777

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