ADAPTATION OF SERVICE‐BASED APPLICATIONS: A MAINTENANCE PROCESS? Stephen Lane Lero – The Irish Software Engineering Research Centre, University of Limerick, Ireland Qing Gu Dept. of Computer Science, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands Patricia Lago Dept. of Computer Science, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands Ita Richardson Lero – The Irish Software Engineering Research Centre, University of Limerick, Ireland 10 Jan 2011 Contact Address ........... Lero International Science Centre University of Limerick Ireland Phone ............... +353 61 233799 Fax .................... +353 61 213036 E-Mail ............... info@lero.ie Website ............ http://www.lero.ie/ Copyright 20110 Lero, University of Limerick This work is partially supported by Science Foundation Ireland under grant no. 03/CE2/I303-1 Lero Technical Report Lero-TR-SPL-2008-01 Lero Technical Report Lero-TR-2010-08