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Sustainable software engineering: Reflections on advances in research and practice

Colin C. Venters Orcid Logo, Rafael Capilla Orcid Logo, Elisa Yumi Nakagawa Orcid Logo, Stefanie Betz Orcid Logo, Birgit Penzenstadler Orcid Logo, Tom Crick Orcid Logo, Ian Brooks Orcid Logo

Information and Software Technology, Volume: 164, Start page: 107316

Swansea University Author: Tom Crick Orcid Logo

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DOI (Published version): 10.1016/j.infsof.2023.107316

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Context: Modern societies are highly dependent on complex, large-scale, software-intensive systems that increasingly operate within an environment of continuous availability, which are challenging to maintain, and evolve in response to changes in stakeholder requirements of the system. Software arch...

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ISSN: 0950-5849 1873-6025
Published: Elsevier BV 2023
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