This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on System Configuration Management, SCM-8, held in conjunction with ECOOP'98 in Brussels, Belgium, in July 1998.The volume presents 17 revised full papers carefully reviewed and selected for presentation; also included is a tutorial lecture; approximately half of the papers come from industry. The book is divided into sections on industrial experience, experimental systems, product data management and system configuration management, formal approaches, cooperative systems, and Web-based applications.

Introducing ClearCase as a process improvement experiment.- Industrial experiences from SCM current state analysis.- Change measurements in an SCM process.- PRCS: The project revision control system.- Multi-grain version control in the Historian system.- High-level best practices in software configuration management.- Experiences with architectural software configuration management in Ragnarok.- Toward SCM/PDM integration?.- Software configuration management and engineering data management: Differences and similarities.- Product configuration using object oriented grammars.- Versioning system models through description logic.- Supporting fine-grained traceability in software development environments.- System modeling resurrected.- Version sensitive editing: Change history as a programming tool.- Coordinated editing of versioned packages in the JP programming environment.- CoEd - A tool for versioning of hierarchical documents.- Modelling versioned hypertext documents.- Requirements for software deployment languages and schema.- The agony and ecstasy of configuration management.