"This book gives an overview of the current research streams in the field of free and open source software development. A multitude of research approaches are used to explore free and open source software development processes, attributes of their products and the workings within the development...

"This book provides integrated chapters on software engineering and enterprise systems focusing on parts integrating requirements engineering, software engineering, process and frameworks, productivity technologies, and enterprise systems"--Provided by publisher.

From theoretical and practical viewpoints, the application of intelligent software agents is a topic of major interest. There has been a growing interest not only in new methodologies for development of intelligent software agents, but also the way in which these methodologies can be supported...

Model-driven software development (MDSD) drastically alters the software development process, characterized by a high degree of innovation and productivity. However, quality assurance application in the domain of software models and model-driven software development is still in an emergent...

1. Integrating patterns into CASE tools / Joan Peckham, Scott Lloyd -- 2. Petri nets with clocks for the analytical validation of business process / Gabriel Vilallonga ... [et al.] -- 3. Software and systems engineering / Rick Gibson -- 4. Lean, light, adaptive, agile and appropriate software...

1. Today's IT environment -- 2. Critical success factors for IT projects -- 3. Project selection and initiation -- 4. The project management discipline -- 5. The software engineering discipline -- 6. Project overall planning -- 7. Developing the schedule and cost plan -- 8. Risk planning and...

Current IT developments like component-based development and Web services have emerged as effective ways of building complex enterprise-scale information systems and providing enterprise application integration. To aid this process, platforms such as .NET and WebSphere have become standards in...

1. Web engineering : introduction and perspectives / San Murugesan, Athula Ginige -- 2. Augmented WebHelix : a practical process for Web engineering / Nary Subramanian, George Whitson -- 3. Model-centric architecting process / Tony C. Shan, Winnie W. Hua -- 4. Architecture, specification, and...

"This book offers practical and useful guidelines, models, and techniques for improving software processes and products for small and medium enterprises, utilizing the authoritative, demonstrative tools of case studies and lessons learned to provide academics, scholars, and practitioners with an...