Guest editorial: Search-based software engineering

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...

Search Based Software Engineering

This paper was written to accompany the author’s keynote talk for the Workshop on Computational Science in Software Engineering held in conjunction with International Conference in Computational Science 2006 in Reading, UK. The paper explains how software engineering activities can be viewed as a search for solutions that balance many competing constraints to achieve an optimal or near optimal ...

Guest Editorial for Special Section from Component-based Software Engineering (CBSE) 2011

This section collects a selection of extended articles from the 14th ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on Component-Based Software Engineering (CBSE) – 2011. CBSE emerged in the late 1990s as a novel development paradigm promoting the rapid and cost-effective assembly of pre-existing software components into complex systems, which is a longstanding dream of software engineers. No surprise thus that CBSE fo...

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

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...