Legacy systems are often business critical and are associated with high maintenance costs. In this paper, we present an overview of a method, Renaissance, which aims to manage the process of regaining control over such systems. Renaissance supports system evolution by first recovering a stable basis using reengineering, and subsequently continuously improving the system by a stream of increment...

current study owes much to Schmitt's scholarship. He died in April 1986. This volume collects essays by scholars of diverse backgrounds as a tribute to Schmitt's achievements. Several essays extend and develop work begun by Schmitt: Eckhard Kessler provides a useful review of how Renaissance Aristotelianism is interrelated to Renaissance humanism and Platonism; through an examination of the tre...

We overview the main historical and technological elements characterising the rise, the fall and the recent renaissance of the cognitive approaches to Artificial Intelligence and provide some insights and suggestions about the future directions and challenges that, in our opinion, this discipline needs to face in the next years. 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.