Income trusts are booming. They have been one of the best-performing classes of investments in one of the worst markets in decades. With over 150 trusts currently trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange at a combined value of over $90 billion, this relatively new vehicle, the income fund, is one of the hottest tickets on the Canadian investment landscape today.Written by two of the industry's top experts and commentators, this is the first book of its kind: a complete guide to the in...

Tech giants entering the banking and financial industry is not an issue of the future, it is already happening. This phenomenon has crucial implications that extend well beyond the banking system. There are questions like: Will tech giants be competitors of incumbents or will they rather partner up? How is the financial regulation going to handle this radical change, and will it succeed in creating a level playing field? What are the implications from a political and social point of view? ...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement, PROFES 2025, held in Salerno, Italy, during December 1–3, 2025.The 9 Industry papers, 19 Workshop papers, 1 Doctoral symposium paper and 1 Tutorial paper presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 101 submissions. The contributions were organized in topical sections as follows: Industry papers; Doctoral symposium papers; Tutori...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement, PROFES 2025, held in Salerno, Italy, during December 1–3, 2025.The 23 full research papers and 20 short research papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 101 submissions.PROFES 2025 focuses on professional Software Process Improvement (SPI) motivated by product, process, and service quality needs. The technical...

Deliver rich audio and video real-time communication and peer-to-peer data exchange right in the browser, without the need for proprietary plug-ins. This concise hands-on guide shows you how to use the emerging Web Real-Time Communication (WebRTC) technology to build a browser-to-browser application, piece by piece.The authors’ learn-by-example approach is perfect for web programmers looking to understand real-time communication, and telecommunications architects unfamiliar with HT...

This three-volume set constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 51st Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications, SEAA 2025, held in Salerno, Italy, during September 10-12, 2025.The 62 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 177 submissions.These papers were organized in the following topical sections:Part I: Data and AI Driven Engineering; Cyber-Physical Systems; Model-Driven Engineering and Modeling Languages.Part II: Pra...

This two-volume set constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 52nd Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications, SEAA 2026, held in Kraków, Poland, during September 2–4, 2026.The 50 full papers and 22 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 146 submissions.These papers were organized in the following topical sections:Part I: Cyber-Physical Systems; Data and AI Driven Engineering; Model-Driven Engineering and Modeling Languages; Eme...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Management of Digital EcoSystems, MEDES 2024, held in Naples, Italy, during November 2024.The 23 full papers and 10 Short papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 65 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Energy and Environment; Recommendation Systems; Social Networks and Emotion Recognition; Medical and Health Issues; Cybersecurity and Privacy; Data...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement, PROFES 2023, which took place in Dornbirn, Austria, in December 2023.The 21 full technical papers, 8 short papers, and 1 poster paper presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 82 submissions. The book also contains one tutorial paper, 12 and workshop papers and 3 doctoral symposium papers.The contributions were organiz...

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering, ENASE 2023, held in Prague, Czech Republic, during April 24–25, 2023.The 15 revised full papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 121 submissions. They contribute to the understanding of relevant trends of current research on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering, includ...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th European Conference on Software Architecture, ECSA 2025, held in Limassol, Cyprus, during September 15–19, 2025.The 18 full papers and 9 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 80 submissions.They are grouped into the following topics: Architectures for MLOps; Large Language Models in Software Architecture; Architectures for Embedded Systems; Self-Adaptive, Secure and Federate...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the tracks and workshops which complemented the 19th European Conference on Software Architecture, ECSA 2025, held in Limassol, Cyprus, during September 15–19, 2025.The 13 full papers and 19 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 56 submissions.They are grouped into the following topics: Tools and Demos; Tutorial; Doctoral Symposium; 1st International Workshop on AI-Assisted Software ...