TOPICS

• The topics of WDES involve research works directly related to DSD, SECO, and SoS and their intersections, not being restricted to the following topics:

• Strategies, applications, relationships, and impacts among the three topics
• Technical, economical, and social issues associated to Software Engineering
• IT, software, and systems architectures (e.g., service-oriented)
• Reuse-based development
• Cloud Computing
• Social, technical, and social-technical networks
• Education and learning
• Supporting tools
• Project management
• Communication, coordination, and collaboration issues
• Diversity management (cultural, technical, social, and organizational)
• Communities and distributed team management
• Knowledge management and decision-making process
• Development processes (e.g., agile methods and hybrid processes)
• Development, evolution, and life-cycle and security issues of software and systems (e.g., requirement management, modeling, configuration management, verification, validation, and testing)
• Metrics and indicators of software and systems development
• Quality of data, software, and systems
• Software acquisition
• Everything as a Service (XaaS) (e.g., software/infrastructure/platform as a Service)
• Business models and distributed development
• IT governance
• Self-adaptive, self-recovery, and context-aware systems
• Challenge and perspectives of research
• Case studies, experiments, and industrial experience reports
• Systematic reviews and systematic mappings