ADAMS: an Artefact-based Process Support System

We present ADAMS (ADvanced Artefact Management System), a Web-based system that integrates project management features such as resource allocation and process control and artefact management features, such as coordination of cooperative workers and artefact versioning, as well as context-awareness and artefact traceability. Maintaining traceability links (dependencies) between artefacts supports management of changes during incremental and iterative software development in a flexible way. Basically, the traceability layer is used to propagate events concerning changes to an artefact to the dependent artefacts, thus also increasing the context awareness in the project.

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