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Vol: 49(63) No: 3 / September 2004 Managing Software Evolution with MECASP Elaine Isnard Prologue Software, France, 12, avenue des Tropiques, 91943 LES ULIS, Paris, France, e-mail: eisnard@prologue-software.fr Enrique Perez Virtual Desk, Spain, Avenida de Brasil, 17 5-a/b 28020 Madrid, Spain, e-mail: eperez@virtualdesk.es Radu Bercaru National Institute for R&D in Informatics, 8-10 Averescu Avenue, 71316 Bucharest 1, Romania, e-mail: radu@ici.ro Alexandra Galatescu National Institute for R&D in Informatics, 8-10 Averescu Avenue, 71316 Bucharest 1, Romania, e-mail: agal@ici.ro Vladimir Florian National Institute for R&D in Informatics, 8-10 Averescu Avenue, 71316 Bucharest 1, Romania, e-mail: vladimir@ici.ro Laura Costea National Institute for R&D in Informatics, 8-10 Averescu Avenue, 71316 Bucharest 1, Romania, e-mail: laura@ici.ro Dan Conescu National Institute for R&D in Informatics, 8-10 Averescu Avenue, 71316 Bucharest 1, Romania, e-mail: dconescu@ici.ro Alexandru Stanciu National Institute for R&D in Informatics, 8-10 Averescu Avenue, 71316 Bucharest 1, Romania, e-mail: alex@.ici.ro Keywords: heterogeneous software integration, maintenance and adaptation, software modeling in XML, XML repository, merge of software versions Abstract MECASP (Maintenance and improvement of component-based applications diffused in ASP mode) is a set of software tools developed during an European IST project. 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