Editorial to theme section on open environmental software systems modeling

Guest Editorial: Special section on software engineering in industrial automation

A CCORDING to many undisputable evidences, the complexity and importance of software in industrial automation systems is growing with a tremendous rate, making software engineering one of the major activities of automation systems developers. In general, software engineering is an established discipline with its methods, traditions and curriculum. Most of its methods and tools are applicable ac...

Special Section: Open Source Software

While many successful and well-known open source projects produce output of high quality, a general assessment of this development paradigm is still missing. In this paper, an online community of both small and large, successful and failed projects and their programmers is analysed mainly using the version-control data of each project, also according to their productivity and estimation of expe...

Guest editorial on special section: Automotive Software Architecture

h 0 A modern day vehicle might be seen as a complex system conainingmillions of lines of code running onmultiple microcontrollers reating a heterogeneous, deeply coupled networking system. Nowaays trends like V2X (Vehicle to Vehicle, Vehicle to Infrastructure, Veicle to Pedestrian), electric vehicles or self-driving cars are all based n software and electronics. These new features require new e...

Editorial: Hybrid Solutions for the Modeling of Complex Environmental Systems

Guest Editorial: Special Section on Interaction and State-Based Modeling