This book presents a dual perspective on modern research and praxis on Data Science, Analytics, and AI/Machine Learning (DSA-AI/ML) system with small or big data. Consequently, potential readers—academics, researchers and practitioners interested in the systematic development and implementation of DSA-AI/ML systems—can be benefited with the high-quality conceptual and empirical research chapters focused on:Foundations, Development Platforms, and Tools on Engineering and M...

This book presents research in big data analytics (BDA) for business of all sizes. The authors analyze problems presented in the application of BDA in some businesses through the study of development methodologies based on the three approaches – 1) plan-driven, 2) agile and 3) hybrid lightweight. The authors first describe BDA systems and how they emerged with the convergence of Statistics, Computer Science, and Business Intelligent Analytics with the practical aim to provide concepts, mod...

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 17th IFIP WG 5.1 International Conference on Product Lifecycle Management, PLM 2020, held in Rapperswil, Switzerland, in July 2020. The conference was held virtually due to the COVID-19 crisis.The 60 revised full papers presented together with 2 technical industrial papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 80 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: smart factory; digital t...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement, PROFES 2016, held in Trondheim, Norway, in November 2016.The 24 revised full papers presented together with 21 short papers, 1 keynote, 3 invited papers, 5 workshop papers. 2 doctoral symposium papers, and 6 tutorials were carefully reviewed and selected from 82 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on Early Phases in Software Engineering; O...

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the Forum, the Doctoral Consortium, the Tools and Demonstrations track, and three specialized workshops, held in conjunction with the 29th International Conference on Enterprise Design, Operations, and Computing, EDOC 2025, which took place in Lisbon, Portugal, during September 9-12, 2025.The 25 full papers and 8 short papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 67 submissions. They stem from t...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement, PROFES 2020, held in Turin, Italy, in November 2020. Due to COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held virtually.The 19 revised full papers and 3 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 68 submissions. The papers cover a broad range of topics related to professional software development and process improvement driven by product ...

Software development continues to be an ever-evolving field as organizations require new and innovative programs that can be implemented to make processes more efficient, productive, and cost-effective. Agile practices particularly have shown great benefits for improving the effectiveness of software development and its maintenance due to their ability to adapt to change. It is integral to remain up to date with the most emerging tactics and techniques involved in the development of new an...

This book contains the refereed proceedings of two long-running events held along with the CAiSE conference relating to the areas of enterprise, business-process and information systems modeling:- the 25th International Conference on Business Process Modeling, Development and Support, BPMDS 2024, and- the 29th International Conference on Exploring Modeling Methods for Systems Analysis and Development, EMMSAD 2024.The conferences were taking place in Limassor, Cyprus,...

This book discusses emerging trends in the field of managing knowledge work due to technological innovations. The book is organized in 3 sections. The first section, entitled "Managing Knowledge, Projects and Networks", discusses knowledge processes and their use, reuse or generation in the context of an organization. The second section, entitled "Managing Knowledge using Social Media", focuses on factors influencing adoption and usage, the role of social media in managing knowledge, and f...

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 book constitutes the proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Perspectives in Business Informatics Research, BIR 2022, which took place in Rostock, Germany, in September 2022. The central theme of BIR 2022 was “Business Informatics for Sustainable Innovation”. Achieving sustainability requires a multi-perspective approach taking organizational, economic, and technical aspects into account. In a world of cloud computing, social networks and big data, additional chal...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement, PROFES 2015, held in Bolzano, Italy, in December 2015.The 18 revised full papers presented together with 10 short papers and 18 workshop papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 50 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on lessons learned from industry-research collaborations; instruments to improve the software development ...