Perspectives on the Future of Software Engineering

Preface (Jürgen Münch, Klaus Schmid).- Empirical Software Engineering Models: Can They Become the Equivalent of Physical Laws in Traditional Engineering? (H. Dieter Rombach).- Part I. Software Development: Notation, Architecture, and Process.- Domain Modeling and Domain Engineering - Key Tasks in Requirements Engineering (Manfred Broy).- Towards Agile Verification (Carlo Ghezzi, Amir Molzam Sharifloo, Claudio Menghi).- On Model-based Software Development (Constance L. Heitmeyer, Sandeep Shukla, Myla M. Archer, Elizabeth I. Leonard).- From Software Systems to Complex Software Ecosystems: Model- and Constraint-based Engineering of Ecosystems (Andreas Rausch, Christian Bartelt, Sebastian Herold, Holger Klus, Dirk Niebuhr).- A Safety Roadmap to Cyber-Physical Systems (Mario Trapp, Daniel Schneider, Peter Liggesmeyer).- Modeling Complex Information Systems (Jörg Dörr).- Continuous Process Improvement (Jens Heidrich).- Part II. Empirical Research and Studies.- Paths to Software Engineering Evidence (Ross Jeffery).- An Evidence Profile for Software Engineering Research and Practice (Claes Wohlin).- Challenges of Evaluating the Quality of Software Engineering Experiments (Oscar Dieste, Natalia Juristo).- Technical Debt: Showing the Way for Better Transfer of Empirical Results (Forrest Shull, Davide Falessi, Carolyn Seaman, Madeline Diep, Lucas Layman).- An Empirical Investigation of the Component-based Performance Prediction Method Palladio (Ralf Reussner, Steffen Becker, Anne Koziolek, Heiko Koziolek).- Can We Trust Software Repositories? (Andreas Zeller).- Empirical Practice in Software Engineering (Andreas Jedlitschka, Liliana Guzmán, Jessica Jung, Constanza Lampasona, Silke Steinbach).- Part III. Visions on the Future of Software Engineering as a Discipline.- What is Software? The Role of Empirical Methods in Answering the Question (Lee Osterweil).- A PersonalPerspective on the Evolution of Empirical Software Engineering (Victor R. Basili).- Moving toward Evidence-based

Jürgen Münch is a Professor of Software Systems Engineering at the Department of Computer Science, the University of Helsinki, Finland. His main areas of research are software measurement, qualitative and quantitative modeling of software products and processes, and software quality assurance. Münch has received several scientific awards, including the FiDiPro award (endowed with €1,900,000).

Klaus Schmid is a Professor of Software Engineering at the University of Hildesheim, Germany. His main research areas are product line engineering, adaptive systems and requirements engineering. He has published more than 80 peer-reviewed articles, served in numerous roles in the scientific community such as program chair and general chair of key conferences, and is a research fellow at the Software Engineering Center, NIPA, South Korea.

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