| Software is the essential enabler for the new economy and science. It creates new markets and new directions for a more reliable, flexible, and robust society. It empowers the exploration of our world in ever more depth. However, software often falls short behind our expectations. Current software methodologies, tools, and techniques remain expensive and not yet reliable for a highly changeable and evolutionary market. Many approaches have been proven only as case-by-case oriented methods.
This book presents a number of new trends and theories in the direction in which we believe software science and engineering may develop to transform the role of software and science in tomorrow’s information society.
This book is an attempt to capture the essence of a new state of art in software science and its supporting technology. The book also aims at identifying the challenges such a technology has to master. It contains papers accepted at the Fifth International Conference on New Trends in software Methodology Tools, and Techniques, V, (SoMeT_06) held in Quebec, Canada, from 25th to 27th October 2006, (url: www.somet.soft.iwate-pu.ac.jp/somet_06). This workshop had brought together researchers and practitioners to share their original research results and practical development experiences in software science, and its related new challenging technology.
One of the important issues addressed in this book is software security tools and techniques. Another example we challenge in this conference is, Lyee methodology as a new Japanese emerged software methodology that has been patented in several countries in Europe, Asia, and America. But it is still in its early stage of emerging as a new software style. This book and the series it continues will also contribute to elaborate on such new trends and related academic research studies and development.
A major goal of this book was to gather scholars from the international research community to discuss and share research experiences on new software methodologies, and formal techniques. The book also investigated other comparable theories and practices in software science, including emerging technologies, from their computational foundations in terms of models, methodologies, and tools. These are essential for developing a variety of information systems research projects and to assess the practical impact on real-world software problems. |
