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This paper describes ideas which arose at two expanded workshops of the SEBPC legacy systems theme. In an earlier paper (Ramage and Munro, 2000) we discussed the early results of that theme; to a large extent, this work follows on from that paper and should be read in conjunction with it.
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Ramage, M. (2002). Global Perspectives on Legacy Systems. In: Henderson, P. (eds) Systems Engineering for Business Process Change: New Directions. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0135-2_19
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