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Follow this link for a more general list on PhDs in Software Engineering[http://www.sigsoft.org/phdDissertations/]

This page collects all PhD dissertations whose subject is related to software evolution. If you are the author of such a dissertation, or if you aware of such dissertations, please add it to this page.

==2009==

* ''Angela Lozano''. Assessing the Effect of Source Code Characteristics on Changeability. The Open University, United Kingdom. August 2009
* ''Peter Ebraert''. Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium, June 2009
* ''Pieter De Leenheer''. '''On Community-based Ontology Evolution'''. Vrije Universiteit Brussel, May 2009
* ''Khanh Hoa Dam''. [http://goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au/~kdam/KhanhHoaDamThesis.pdf '''Supporting Software Evolution in Agent Systems''']. RMIT University, Australia, March 2009
* ''Marco Lormans''. '''Managing Requirements Evolution'''. Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands, January 2009

==2008==

* ''Adrian Lienhard''. [http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~scg/Archive/PhD/lienhard-phd.pdf '''Dynamic Object Flow Analysis''']. University of Bern, December 2008.
* ''Romain Robbes''. '''Of Change and Software'''. University of Lugano, Switzerland, December 2008
* ''Carlos Noguera''. '''A Model-driven tool-set for Developing and Validating Annotation Frameworks'''. University of Lille, France, November 2008
* ''Beat Fluri''. [http://fluri.computerscience.ch/files/cd/fluri_dissertation_2008.pdf '''Change Distilling - Enriching software evolution analysis with fine-grained source code change histories''']. University of Zurich, Switzerland, October 2008
* ''Israel Herraiz Tabernero''. [http://purl.org/net/who/iht/phd '''A statistical examination of the properties and evolution of libre software''']. Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain, October 2008
* ''Jean-Christophe Trigaux.'' '''Quality of feature diagram languages: formal evaluation and comparison.''' Facultés universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix (FUNDP), Namur, Belgium, September 2008
* ''Naouel Moha''. '''Decor: Détection et correction des défauts dans les systèmes orientés objet'''. Université des Sciences et Technologie de Lile, France, August 2008
* ''Marcus Denker''. [http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~scg/Archive/PhD/denker-phd.pdf '''Sub-method Structural and Behavioral Reflection''']. University of Bern, May 2008
* ''Bram Adams''. [http://sailhome.cs.queensu.ca/~bram/publications/2008/PhD.pdf '''Co-evolution of Source Code and the Build System: Impact on the Introduction of AOSD in Legacy Systems''']. Universiteit Gent, Belgium, May 2008. ISBN 978-90-8578-203-2
* ''Magiel Bruntink''. [http://homepages.cwi.nl/~bruntink/papers/thesis-phd.pdf '''Renovation of Idiomatic Crosscutting Concerns in Embedded Systems''']. Technische Universiteit Delft, The Netherlands, March 2008
* ''Marius Marin''. [http://www.library.tudelft.nl/ws/search/publications/search/metadata/index.htm?docname=376266 '''An Integrated System to Manage Crosscutting Concerns in Source Code''']. Technische Universiteit Delft, The Netherlands, January 2008
* ''Filip Van Rysselberghe''. '''Studying Historic Change Operations: Techniques and Observations'''. Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium, January 2008.

==2007==
<ul>
<li>Dolorès Diaz. Réalisation d'évolutions logicielles sur des applications d'entreprise en phase de maintenance.
LIFL, Université Lille 1, France, December 2007 [http://adam.lifl.fr/pmwiki.php/Adam/Pub2007?action=bibentry&bibfile=adam.bib&bibref=Diaz-phd-07]
</li>

<li>Artur Boronat. MOMENT: A formal framework for MOdel manageMENT. Department of Information Systems and Computation, Technical University of Valencia, Spain, December 2007 [http://www.cs.le.ac.uk/people/aboronat/papers/2007_thesis_ArturBoronat.pdf]</li>

<li>Stephen Cook. Evolution, goals and assumptions in software systems. University of Reading, United Kingdom, November 2007.</li>

<li>Bas Graaf. Model-driven evolution of software architectures. Technische Universiteit Delft, The Netherlands, November 2007 [http://www.st.ewi.tudelft.nl/~basgraaf/publications/PHDTHESIS2007.pdf]</li>

<li>David Shepherd. Natural Language Program Analysis: Combining Natural Language Processing and Program Analysis to Improve Software Maintenance Tools. University of Delaware, USA, August 2007 [http://128.4.133.74:8080/dspace/bitstream/123456789/176/3/shepherd.dissertation.pdf]</li>

<li>Joel Huselius. Reverse Engineering of Legacy Real-Time Systems: An Automated Approach Based on Execution-Time Recording.
Malardalen University, Sweden, June 2007 [http://www.mrtc.mdh.se/index.php?choice=publications&id=1322]</li>

<li>Andy Kellens. Maintaining causality between design regularities and source code.
Programming Technology Lab, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium, June 2007 [http://prog.vub.ac.be/~akellens/publications/phd.pdf]</li>

<li>Orla Greevy. Enriching Reverse Engineering with Feature Analysis. Software Composition Group, University of Bern,
Switzerland, May 2007 [http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~scg/Archive/PhD/greevy-phd.pdf]</li>

<li>Michael Fischer. EvoZilla - Longitudinal Evolution Analysis of Large Scale Software Systems. Vienna University of Technology, Austria. May 2007 [http://www.evozilla.com/people/mfi/papers/fischer06phdthesis-evozilla.pdf]</li>

<li>Christian F.J. Lange. Assessing and Improving the Quality of Modeling: A Series of Empirical Studies about the UML.
Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands, 2007 [http://www.win.tue.nl/~clange/thesis/thesis.pdf]</li>

<li>Jacek Ratzinger. sPACE - Software Project Assessment in the Course of Evolution. Vienna University of Technology, Austria. 2007 [http://www.infosys.tuwien.ac.at/Staff/ratzinger/publications/ratzinger_phd-thesis_space.pdf]</li>

<li>Thomas Cleenewerck. Modularizing Language Constructs: A Reßective Approach . Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium. 2007 [http://prog.vub.ac.be/Publications/2007/vub-prog-phd-07-02.pdf]</li>

<li>Isabel Michiels. A Goal-Driven Approach for Documenting and Verifying Design Invariants . Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium. 2007 [http://prog.vub.ac.be/Publications/2007/vub-prog-phd-07-03.pdf]</li>
</ul>

==2006==
* ''Andy Zaidman''. [http://www.st.ewi.tudelft.nl/~zaidman/publications/azaidmanPhD_A4.pdf '''Scalability Solutions for Program Comprehension through Dynamic Analysis''']. Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium. September 2006
* Andrew Le Gear. Component Reconnexion: Identifying and encapsulating reuseful components in legacy software systems. University of Limerick, Ireland. September 2006.
* Pamela O'Shea. An investigation of Views and abstractions employed by software engineers during software maintenance: An empirically founded set of guidelines for visualization tools supporting comprehension. University of Limerick, Ireland. September 2006.
* Kris De Schutter. Aspect oriented revitalisation of legacy software through logic meta-programming. Universiteit Gent, Belgium. May 2006
* Gregorio Robles. Software Engineering Research on Libre Software: Data Sources, Methodologies and Results. Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain. February 2006 [http://libresoft.es/grex/phd]
* Dirk Deridder. A Concept-Centric Environment for Software Evolution. Vrije Universiteit Brussel, 2006 [http://prog.vub.ac.be/Publications/2006/vub-prog-phd-06-02.pdf]
* Ellen Van Paesschen. Advanced Round-Trip Engineering: An Agile Analysis-Driven Approach for Dynamic Languages. Vrije Universiteit Brussel, 2006 [http://prog.vub.ac.be/Publications/2006/vub-prog-phd-06-03.pdf]
* Holger M. Kienle. Building Reverse Engineering Tools with Software Components. University of Victoria, Canada. November 2006. [http://hdl.handle.net/1828/115]

==2005==
<ul>
<li>Gabriela Arévalo. High Level Views in Object Oriented Systems using Formal Concept Analysis. Universität Bern, Switzerland, January 2005 [http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~scg/cgi-bin/oobib.cgi?query=Arev05a]</li>

<li>Nathanael Schärli. Traits: Composing Classes from
Behavioral Building Blocks. Universität Bern, Switzerland, February 2005 [http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~scg/cgi-bin/oobib.cgi?query=Scha05a]</li>

<li>Andrea Capiluppi. Metrics-based study of the evolution
of open-source based systems. Politecnico di Torino, Italy, May 2005.</li>

<li>Martin Pinzger. ArchView - Analyzing Evolutionary Aspects of Complex Software Systems . Technical University of Vienna, Austria, May 2005.</li>

<li>Johan Brichau. Integrative Composition of Program Generators. Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium, May 2005.</li>

<li>Matthias Rieger. Effective Clone Detection Without Language Barriers. Universität Bern, Switzerland, June 2005 [http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~scg/cgi-bin/oobib.cgi?query=Rieg05a]</li>

<li>Damien Pollet. Une architecture pour les transformations
de modèles et la restructuration de modèles UML. Université de Rennes 1, France, June 2005.</li>

<li>Ragnhild Van Der Straeten. Inconsistency Management in
Model-Driven Engineering. Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium, September 2005 [http://w3.umh.ac.be/~infofs/preprints/index.php?page=paper_info&ID=147]</li>

<li>Tudor Gîrba. Modeling History to Understand Software Evolution. Universität Bern, Switzerland, November 2005 [http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~scg/cgi-bin/oobib.cgi?query=Girb05d]</li>

<li>Imed Hammouda. Multidimensional structuring of software
systems - Tools and Applications. Tampere University of Technology, Finland, November 2005</li>

<li>Alexandre Bergel. Classboxes - Controlling Visibility of
Class Extensions. Universität Bern, Switzerland, November 2005 [http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~scg/cgi-bin/oobib.cgi?query=Berg05f]</li>

<li>Olivier Barais. Construire et Maitriser l'Évolution d'une Architecture Logicielle à base de Composants. Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille, France, December 2005.</li>

</ul>
 

==2004==

* ''Claudio Riva''. [http://www.infosys.tuwien.ac.at/Staff/mj/theses/ClaudioRiva.pdf '''View-based Software Architecture Reconstruction''']. Vienna University of Technology, Austria, October 2004

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I do research in reverse engineering of software systems. I have a Ph.D. from the University of Victoria, Canada and continue to be a postdoctoral researcher there. I have been involved with the Rigi reverse engineering tool.

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