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DEXA 1994: Database and Expert Systems Applications pp 420–432Cite as

Tracing the evolution of artifacts

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A model called the Evolutionary Object Model is proposed as a means of keeping track of the Requirements Engineering(RE) decisions, their rationales and their effects on the RE product. Under this model an RE artifact is looked upon as an object that can evolve in three ways, by transformation, mutation, and expansion. The history of object evolution under these different evolutionary forms is kept track of in the inner, spatial and temporal histories of evolutionary objects respectively. In addition, the context in which an evolution occurs as well as the history of the decision making process which has led to it is maintained in the trace.

This work was supported in part by the ESPRIT project 6612 entitled F3 (From Fuzzy to Formal).

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  1. Université de Paris Sorbonne, 17, rue de la Sorbonne, 75231, Paris Cedex 5, France

    Colette Rolland

  2. Delhi Institute of Technology, Kashmere Gate, Old IG Block, 110006, Delhi, India

    Naveen Prakash

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Rolland, C., Prakash, N. (1994). Tracing the evolution of artifacts. In: Karagiannis, D. (eds) Database and Expert Systems Applications. DEXA 1994. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 856. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-58435-8_207

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