Theses

Follow this link for a more general list on PhDs in Software Engineering[1]

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.

2008

• Carlos Noguera. A Model-driven tool-set for Developing and Validating Annotation Frameworks. University of Lille, France, November 2008
• Israel Herraiz Tabernero. A statistical examination of the properties and evolution of libre software. Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain, October 2008 [2]
• Naouel Moha. Decor: Détection et correction des défauts dans les systèmes orientés objet. Université des Sciences et Technologie de Lile, France, August 2008.
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• Bram Adams. 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 [3]
• Magiel Bruntink. Renovation of Idiomatic Crosscutting Concerns in Embedded Systems. Technische Universiteit Delft, The Netherlands, March 2008 [4]
• Marius Marin. An Integrated System to Manage Crosscutting Concerns in Source Code.Technische Universiteit Delft, The Netherlands, January 2008 [5]
• Filip Van Rysselberghe. Studying Historic Change Operations: Techniques and Observations. Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium, January 2008.

2007

• Dolorès Diaz. Réalisation d'évolutions logicielles sur des applications d'entreprise en phase de maintenance. LIFL, Université Lille 1, France, December 2007.
  <a href="http://adam.lifl.fr/pmwiki.php/Adam/Pub2007?action=bibentry&bibfile=adam.bib&bibref=Diaz-phd-07">http://adam.lifl.fr/pmwiki.php/Adam/Pub2007?action=bibentry&bibfile=adam.bib&bibref=Diaz-phd-07</a>
• Artur Boronat. MOMENT: A formal framework for MOdel manageMENT. Department of Information Systems and Computation, Technical University of Valencia, Spain, December 2007.
  <a href="http://www.cs.le.ac.uk/people/aboronat/papers/2007_thesis_ArturBoronat.pdf">http://www.cs.le.ac.uk/people/aboronat/papers/2007_thesis_ArturBoronat.pdf</a>
• Stephen Cook. Evolution, goals and assumptions in software systems. University of Reading, United Kingdom, November 2007.
• Bas Graaf. Model-driven evolution of software architectures. Technische Universiteit Delft, The Netherlands, November 2007.
  <a href="http://www.st.ewi.tudelft.nl/~basgraaf/publications/PHDTHESIS2007.pdf">http://www.st.ewi.tudelft.nl/~basgraaf/publications/PHDTHESIS2007.pdf</a>
• David Shepherd. Natural Language Program Analysis: Combining Natural Language Processing and Program Analysis to Improve Software Maintenance Tools. University of Delaware, USA, August 2007.
  <a href="http://128.4.133.74:8080/dspace/bitstream/123456789/176/3/shepherd.dissertation.pdf">http://128.4.133.74:8080/dspace/bitstream/123456789/176/3/shepherd.dissertation.pdf</a>
• Joel Huselius. Reverse Engineering of Legacy Real-Time Systems: An Automated Approach Based on Execution-Time Recording. Malardalen University, Sweden, June 2007.
  <a href="http://www.mrtc.mdh.se/index.php?choice=publications&id=1322">http://www.mrtc.mdh.se/index.php?choice=publications&id=1322</a>
• Andy Kellens. Maintaining causality between design regularities and source code. Programming Technology Lab, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium, June 2007.
  <a href="http://prog.vub.ac.be/~akellens/publications/phd.pdf">http://prog.vub.ac.be/~akellens/publications/phd.pdf</a>
• Orla Greevy. Enriching Reverse Engineering with Feature Analysis. Software Composition Group, University of Bern, Switzerland, May 2007.
  <a href="http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~scg/cgi-bin/scgbib.cgi/abstract=yes?Gree07b">http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~scg/Archive/PhD/greevy-phd.pdf</a>
• Michael Fischer. EvoZilla - Longitudinal Evolution Analysis of Large Scale Software Systems. Vienna University of Technology, Austria. May 2007
  <a href="http://www.evozilla.com/people/mfi/papers/fischer06phdthesis-evozilla.pdf">http://www.evozilla.com/people/mfi/papers/fischer06phdthesis-evozilla.pdf</a>
• 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.
  <a href="http://www.win.tue.nl/~clange/thesis/thesis.pdf">http://www.win.tue.nl/~clange/thesis/thesis.pdf</a>
• Jacek Ratzinger. sPACE - Software Project Assessment in the Course of Evolution. Vienna University of Technology, Austria. 2007
  <a href="http://www.infosys.tuwien.ac.at/Staff/ratzinger/publications/ratzinger_phd-thesis_space.pdf">http://www.infosys.tuwien.ac.at/Staff/ratzinger/publications/ratzinger_phd-thesis_space.pdf</a>
• Thomas Cleenewerck. Modularizing Language Constructs: A Reßective Approach . Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium. 2007
  <a href="http://prog.vub.ac.be/Publications/2007/vub-prog-phd-07-02.pdf ">http://prog.vub.ac.be/Publications/2007/vub-prog-phd-07-02.pdf </a>
• Isabel Michiels. A Goal-Driven Approach for Documenting and Verifying Design Invariants . Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium. 2007
  <a href="http://prog.vub.ac.be/Publications/2007/vub-prog-phd-07-03.pdf ">http://prog.vub.ac.be/Publications/2007/vub-prog-phd-07-03.pdf </a>

2006

• Andy Zaidman. Scalability Solutions for Program Comprehension through Dynamic Analysis. Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium. September 2006.
  <a href="http://www.st.ewi.tudelft.nl/~zaidman/publications/azaidmanPhD_A4.pdf">http://www.st.ewi.tudelft.nl/~zaidman/publications/azaidmanPhD_A4.pdf</a>
• 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
  <a href="file:///Users/kdschutt/work/writings/kdschutt%20v2/pub/phd-full.pdf">file:///Users/kdschutt/work/writings/kdschutt%20v2/pub/phd-full.pdf</a>
• Gregorio Robles. Software Engineering Research on Libre Software: Data Sources, Methodologies and Results. Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain. February 2006
  <a href="http://libresoft.es/grex/phd">http://libresoft.es/grex/phd</a>
• Dirk Deridder. A Concept-Centric Environment for Software Evolution . Vrije Universiteit Brussel, 2006
  <a href="http://prog.vub.ac.be/Publications/2006/vub-prog-phd-06-02.pdf ">http://prog.vub.ac.be/Publications/2006/vub-prog-phd-06-02.pdf </a>
• Ellen Van Paesschen. Advanced Round-Trip Engineering: An Agile Analysis-Driven Approach for Dynamic Languages . Vrije Universiteit Brussel, 2006
  <a href="http://prog.vub.ac.be/Publications/2006/vub-prog-phd-06-03.pdf">http://prog.vub.ac.be/Publications/2006/vub-prog-phd-06-03.pdf</a>

2005

• Gabriela Arévalo. High Level Views in Object Oriented Systems using Formal Concept Analysis. Universität Bern, Switzerland, January 2005
  <a href="http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~scg/cgi-bin/oobib.cgi?query=Arev05a">http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~scg/cgi-bin/oobib.cgi?query=Arev05a</a>
• Nathanael Schärli. Traits: Composing Classes from Behavioral Building Blocks. Universität Bern, Switzerland, February 2005
  <a href="http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~scg/cgi-bin/oobib.cgi?query=Scha05a">http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~scg/cgi-bin/oobib.cgi?query=Scha05a</a>
• Andrea Capiluppi. Metrics-based study of the evolution of open-source based systems. Politecnico di Torino, Italy, May 2005.
• Martin Pinzger. ArchView - Analyzing Evolutionary Aspects of Complex Software Systems . Technical University of Vienna, Austria, May 2005.
• Johan Brichau. Integrative Composition of Program Generators. Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium, May 2005.
• Matthias Rieger. Effective Clone Detection Without Language Barriers. Universität Bern, Switzerland, June 2005
  <a href="http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~scg/cgi-bin/oobib.cgi?query=Rieg05a">http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~scg/cgi-bin/oobib.cgi?query=Rieg05a</a>
• Damien Pollet. Une architecture pour les transformations de modèles et la restructuration de modèles UML. Université de Rennes 1, France, June 2005.
• Ragnhild Van Der Straeten. Inconsistency Management in Model-Driven Engineering. Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium, September 2005
  <a href="http://w3.umh.ac.be/~infofs/preprints/index.php?page=paper_info&ID=147">http://w3.umh.ac.be/~infofs/preprints/index.php?page=paper_info&ID=147</a>
• Tudor Gîrba. Modeling History to Understand Software Evolution. Universität Bern, Switzerland, November 2005
  <a href="http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~scg/cgi-bin/oobib.cgi?query=Girb05d">http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~scg/cgi-bin/oobib.cgi?query=Girb05d</a>
• Imed Hammouda. Multidimensional structuring of software systems - Tools and Applications. Tampere University of Technology, Finland, November 2005
• Alexandre Bergel. Classboxes - Controlling Visibility of Class Extensions. Universität Bern, Switzerland, November 2005
  <a href="http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~scg/cgi-bin/oobib.cgi?query=Berg05f">http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~scg/cgi-bin/oobib.cgi?query=Berg05f</a>
• 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.

2004

• Claudio Riva. View-based Software Architecture Reconstruction. Vienna University of Technology, Austria, October 2004
  <a href="http://www.infosys.tuwien.ac.at/Staff/mj/theses/ClaudioRiva.pdf">http://www.infosys.tuwien.ac.at/Staff/mj/theses/ClaudioRiva.pdf</a>