Guest editorial to the Special Issue on Component-Based Software Engineering and Software Architecture

Guest Editorial: Special Issue on Software Maintenance and Evolution

1 SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE SOFTWARE maintenance and evolution continues to play a vital role in the development of software systems. It is widely acknowledged that the majority of development effort, and thereby expenditure, is allocated to postinitial release activity. This activity, which takes place after the software has seen its first release, is known as software maintenance (or software evol...

Guest Editorial: Special Issue on Programming Theory, Information System Engineering, Software Engineering, and Artificial Intelligence

Guest Editorial: Special Issue on Software for Soft Computing

The term Soft Computing refers to a family of techniques (Fuzzy Logic, Neuro-computing, Probabilistic Reasoning, Evolutionary Computation, etc.) endowed with the ability to work in a cooperative way, taking profit from the main advantages of each other, thus tackling with complex real-world problems really hard to solve otherwise [6]. In the last years, many software tools have been developed f...

Guest Editorial: Special Issue on Collaborative Engineering

Design of complex engineering systems is increasingly becoming a collaborative task among designers or design teams that are physically, geographically, and temporally distributed. The complexity of modern products means that a single designer or design team can no longer manage the complete product development effort. Developing products without sufficient expertise in a broad set of disciplin...

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...