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Engineering Experience Base Maintenance Knowledge

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Advances in Learning Software Organizations (LSO 2001)

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The value of a corporate information system such as an experience base tends to degrade with time. To keep the value of such a system, maintenance is an essential. Maintenance should not simply happen ad-hoc but systematically and based on specific maintenance knowledge. As a jump-start for maintenance, maintenance knowledge should be available right from the start of continuous operation. This paper describes how to systematically develop (“to engineer”) such maintenance knowledge during buildup of the corporate information system.

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  1. Fraunhofer Institut Experimentelles Software Engineering (IESE), Sauerwiesen 6, 67661, Kaiserslautern, Germany

    Markus Nick & Klaus-Dieter Althoff

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  1. Fraunhofer IESE Sauerwiesen 6, 67661, Kaiserslautern, Germany

    Klaus-Dieter Althoff

  2. University of Kaiserslautern, Postfach 3049, 67653, Kaiserslautern, Germany

    Raimund L. Feldmann

  3. FH Ludwigshafen, Ernst-Boehe-Straße 4, 67059, Ludwigshafen, Germany

    Wolfgang Müller

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Nick, M., Althoff, KD. (2001). Engineering Experience Base Maintenance Knowledge. In: Althoff, KD., Feldmann, R.L., Müller, W. (eds) Advances in Learning Software Organizations. LSO 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2176. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44814-4_19

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