Maintenance of COTS-intensive software systems

• An integrated production and preventive maintenance control model is proposed.
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This paper addresses the integrated control of production and preventive maintenance for a deteriorating single-machine manufacturing system. The machine is subjected to deterioration and random failures. Both corrective maintenance ...

Much research in software engineering have been focused on improving software quality and automating the maintenance process to reduce software costs and mitigating complications associated with the evolution process. Despite all these efforts, there ...

Differences between software development and maintenance imply that software maintenance work should be measured and managed somewhat differently from software development. On the other hand, maintenance programmers frequently perform the same tasks as ...