This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th International Symposium on Search-Based Software Engineering, SSBSE 2026, held in Montreal, QC, Canada, during July 2026.The 5 full papers, with 10 short papers included, in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 23 submissions. The symposium featured four tracks: the Research Track, the SBSE Challenge Track, the Hot-off-the-Press (HOP) Track, and the Replications, Negative Results, and New Ideas...

This volume constitutes the proceedings of 31st International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems, CoopIS 2025, held in Marbella, Spain, during October 20–22, 2025.The 24 full papers and 21 short papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 128 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Invited Speakers; Data-Driven and Predictive Process Analytics; Neuro-Symbolic Systems and Knowledge Graphs; Process Conformance, Integrity ...

Software is an integral part of our lives today. Modern software systems are highly complex and often pose new challenges in different aspects of Software Engineering (SE).Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a growing field in computer science that has been proven effective in applying and developing AI techniques to address various SE challenges.This unique compendium covers applications of state-of-the-art AI techniques to the key areas of SE (design, development, debugging, testing, etc).Al...

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 10th International Joint Conference on Software Technologies, ICSOFT 2015, held in Colmar, France, in July 2015.The 23 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 117 submissions. The papers are organized around the following conference tracks: enterprise software technologies; software project management; software engineering methods and techniques; distributed and mobile software systems....

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering, ENASE 2016, held in Rome, Italy, in April 2016.The 11 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 79 submissions. The mission of ENASE is to be a prime international forum to discuss and publish research findings and IT industry experiences with relation to the evaluation of novel approaches to software engineer...

Web services and Service-Oriented Computing (SOC) have become thriving areas of academic research, joint university/industry research projects, and novel IT products on the market. SOC is the computing paradigm that uses Web services as building blocks for the engineering of composite, distributed applications out of the reusable application logic encapsulated by Web services. Web services could be considered the best-known and most standardized technology in use today for distributed comp...

The proposed book will discuss various aspects of big data Analytics. It will deliberate upon the tools, technology, applications, use cases and research directions in the field. Chapters would be contributed by researchers, scientist and practitioners from various reputed universities and organizations for the benefit of readers.

This book constitutes the revised accepted papers of several workshops which were held in conjunction with the 6th International Conference on Process Mining, ICPM 2024, held in Lyngby, Denmark, during October 2024.The 56 revised full papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 126 submissions.The papers presented in this volume stem from the following workshops:– 9th International Workshop on Process Querying, Manipulation, and Intellige...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 35th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering, CAiSE 2023, which was held in Zaragoza, Spain, during June 12-16, 2023.The 36 full papers included in these proceedings were selected from 161 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Cyber-human and cyber-physical systems; requirements engineering; IoT; environmental applications; process mining; event-driven process mining; ontology and k...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems, CoopIS 2024, held in Porto, Portugal, during November 19-21, 2024.The 16 full papers, 11 short papers and 2 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 78 submissions.They were organized in topical sections as follows: processes and human-in-the-loop**;** process analytics and technology; process improvement; knowledge graphs and knowledge engin...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Sciences, RCIS 2021, which was planned to take place in Limassol, Cyprus, but had to change to an online event due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The conference took place virtually during May 11-14, 2021. It focused on the special theme "Information Science and Global Crisis".The scope of RCIS is summarized by the thematic areas of information systems and their engineering; ...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 40th IFIP WG 11.3 Annual Conference on Data and Applications Security and Privacy, DBSec 2026, held in Arlington, VA, USA, during July 28-30, 2026.The 18 full papers and 10 short papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 64 submissions. The papers present research from academia, industry, and government on both theoretical and practical aspects of information security.