This book constitutes the proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Theoretical Aspects of Software Engineering, TASE 2022, held in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, July 2022. The 21 full regular papers presented together with 5 short papers in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 71 submissions. The topics of the papers covering various fields in software engineering and the latest developments in in formal and theoretical software engineering methods and techniques.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Colloquium on Theoretical Aspects of Computing, ICTAC 2014 held in Bucharest, Romania, in September 2014. The 25 revised full papers presented together with three invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 74 submissions. The papers cover various topics such as automata theory and formal languages; principles and semantics of programming languages; theories of concurrency, mobility and reconfiguration; logics and their applications; software architectures and their models, refinement and verification; relationship between software requirements, models and code; static and dynamic program analysis and verification; software specification, refinement, verification and testing; model checking and theorem proving; models of object and component systems; coordination and feature interaction; integration of theories, formal methods and tools for engineering computing systems; service-oriented architectures: models and development methods; models of concurrency, security, and mobility; theories of distributed, grid and cloud computing; real-time, embedded, hybrid and cyber-physical systems; type and category theory in computer science; models for e-learning and education; case studies, theories, tools and experiments of verified systems; domain-specific modeling and technology: examples, frameworks and practical experience; challenges and foundations in environmental modeling and monitoring, healthcare, and disaster management.

TACS'91 is the first International Conference on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science held at Tohoku University, Japan, in September 1991. This volume contains 37 papers and an abstract for the talks presented at the conference. TACS'91 focused on theoretical foundations of programming, and theoretical aspects of the design, analysis and implementation of programming languages and systems. The following range of topics is covered: logic, proof, specification and semantics of programs and languages; theories and models of concurrent, parallel and distributed computation; constructive logic, category theory, and type theory in computer science; theory-based systems for specifying, synthesizing, transforming, testing, and verifying software.

"This book presents current, effective software engineering methods for the design and development of modern Web-based applications"--Provided by publisher.

Like other sciences and engineering disciplines, software engineering requires a cycle of model building, experimentation, and learning. Experiments are valuable tools for all software engineers who are involved in evaluating and choosing between different methods, techniques, languages and tools. The purpose of Experimentation in Software Engineering is to introduce students, teachers, researchers, and practitioners to empirical studies in software engineering, using controlled experiments. The introduction to experimentation is provided through a process perspective, and the focus is on the steps that we have to go through to perform an experiment. The book is divided into three parts. The first part provides a background of theories and methods used in experimentation. Part II then devotes one chapter to each of the five experiment steps: scoping, planning, execution, analysis, and result presentation. Part III completes the presentation with two examples. Assignments and statistical material are provided in appendixes. Overall the book provides indispensable information regarding empirical studies in particular for experiments, but also for case studies, systematic literature reviews, and surveys. It is a revision of the authors’ book, which was published in 2000. In addition, substantial new material, e.g. concerning systematic literature reviews and case study research, is introduced. The book is self-contained and it is suitable as a course book in undergraduate or graduate studies where the need for empirical studies in software engineering is stressed. Exercises and assignments are included to combine the more theoretical material with practical aspects. Researchers will also benefit from the book, learning more about how to conduct empirical studies, and likewise practitioners may use it as a “cookbook” when evaluating new methods or techniques before implementing them in their organization.

This book identifies challenges and opportunities in the development and implementation of software that contain significant statistical content. While emphasizing the relevance of using rigorous statistical and probabilistic techniques in software engineering contexts, it presents opportunities for further research in the statistical sciences and their applications to software engineering. It is intended to motivate and attract new researchers from statistics and the mathematical sciences to attack relevant and pressing problems in the software engineering setting. It describes the "big picture," as this approach provides the context in which statistical methods must be developed. The book's survey nature is directed at the mathematical sciences audience, but software engineers should also find the statistical emphasis refreshing and stimulating. It is hoped that the book will have the effect of seeding the field of statistical software engineering by its indication of opportunities where statistical thinking can help to increase understanding, productivity, and quality of software and software production.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed postproceedings of the First International Colloquium on Theoretical Aspects of Computing, ICTAC 2004. The 34 revised full papers presented together with 4 invited contributions were carefully selected from 111 submissions during two rounds of reviewing and improvement. The papers are organized in topical sections on concurrent and distributed systems, model integration and theory unification, program reasoning and testing, verification, theories of programming and programming languages, real-time and co-design, and automata theory and logics.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Colloquium on Theoretical Aspects of Computing, ICTAC 2008 held in Istanbul, Turkey in September 2008. The 27 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from over 70 submissions. The aim of the colloquium is to bring together practitioners and researchers from academia, industry and government to present research results, and exchange experience, ideas, and solutions for their problems in theoretical aspects of computing such as automata theory and formal languages, principles and semantics of programming languages, software architectures and their description languages, software specification, refinement, and verification, model checking and theorem proving, real-time, embedded and hybrid systems, theory of parallel, distributed, and internet-based (grid) computing, simulation and modeling, and service-oriented development.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Colloquium on Theoretical Aspects of Computing, ICTAC 2015, held in Cali, Colombia, in October 2015. The 25 revised full papers presented together with 7 invited talks, 3 tool papers, and 2 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 93 submissions. The papers cover various topics such as algebra and category theory; automata and formal languages; concurrency; constraints, logic and semantic; software architecture and component-based design; and verification.