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Strategie und Reifegradmodelle sind zeit- und ressourcenintensiv. Die Autoren legen einen Ansatz vor, der bekannte Modelle umsetzbar macht. Im Zentrum steht der IT-Leistungserbringer, der auf Basis der vier strategischen IT-Perspektiven Geschäftsprozessorientierung, Kundenorientierung, Operationelle Qualität und Zukunftsorientierung bewertet wird. Daraus wird die strategische IT-Ausrichtung abgeleitet.Um den konkreten Handlungsbedarf zu ermitteln, wird der IT-Leistungserbringer mit einem Reifegradmodell beurteilt und der neuen strategischen Ausrichtung gegenübergestellt. Das Vorgehen kombiniert bekannte Schritte zur nachhaltig organisierter Informatik mit hoher Verwertbarkeit in der Praxis.

Urgent deadlines, constant lack of time, permanent delays - these are the most faithful companions and, at the same time, the greatest enemies of the project manager. Even certified project managers, people with enormous knowledge and a lot of experience, find themselves in a situation where they need great mental resilience in order not to give up. The book is a complete manual for all critical situations a project manager might need to handle along the project's lifecycle. Written by a project manager with many years of experience, each chapter contains real-life examples with analysis and guidelines. You'll benefit from the down-to-earth knowledge that usually project managers learn over the course of years in critical and stressful situations with no preparation beforehand. It's not about academic methodologies – it's about pragmatic solutions that work in real-life. Far too often, the wise theory of IT project management has nothing to do with reality. ManagingIT Projects is your special compendium of knowledge, featuring'project management black magic,” chock full of proven recipes for project managers and IT organization managers, as well as advice on how to act in critical situations.What You'll LearnExamine the main reasons for delays in projects and see where they come from Review the key success factors in managing projects beyond project management methodologies and techniquesUnderstand the critical moments of projects and see how to prepare for themApply a pragmatic strategy and philosophy for successful project delivery and cooperation with customers Who This Book Is ForSoftware developers, project managers, engineering managers and software development directors, sales reps, executive and foundersEndorsements:'An extremely powerful book which describes well the highlights of critical project management well supported by real-life experience. […] A ready-made guide to succeed.'Antonietta MastroianniChief Digital & IT Officer at Proximus, Telco Woman of the year 2022'Straight to the point, well written and bold! […] One of the best books on project management!'Dr. Joerg StormGlobal Head IT Infrastructure Mercedes-Benz Mobility'Absolutely recommended book for all professionals in the IT industry!'Francis CeperoIoT Business Unit Leader A1 Group, former VP Innovation & Technology at SAP'Managing IT Projects'by Marcin Dąbrowski is a reference work […] The best book I read this year.'Holger WeichhausSenior Director for Development Quality, AUDI AG'This is a very practical and insightful book that I wish I could have read when I started working in project management. […] I will definitely make it mandatory reading for all my project managers.'Ricardo CamposCEO ITSCredit, former CEO at ActivoBank and Chief Digital Officer at Millennium Bank'The book really draws you in to how to successfully manage an IT-project both on a very practical note and also how to influence both internal and external stakeholders.'Brian StoutFormer CEO of BT One Phone, board member of T-Mobile The Netherlands and CEOof KPN Belgium'There are many books trying to explain to us how to design, sell and deliver transformative IT programs for demanding clients. “Managing IT projects” is more. […] Outstanding value for practitioners.'Michael Brandenburg, GM 2Quadrate GmbH, Lead Coach at IESE Business School, former VP at Capgemini'It's incredibly practical. It wins my trust.'Ewa Maciaś, Director of Engineering at Nomagic, ex Director of Engineering at Google &

Web3 is the next evolution for the World Wide Web based on Blockchain technology. ​This book will equip entrepreneurs with the best preparation for the megatrend of Web3 by reviewing its core concepts such as DAOs, tokens, dApps, and Ethereum.With Web2, much of the valuable data and wealth has been concentrated with a handful of mega tech operators like Apple, Facebook, Google and Amazon. This has made it difficult for startups to get an edge. It has also meant that users have had little choice but to give up their value data for free. Web3 aims to upend this model using a decentralized approach that is on the blockchain and crypto. This allows for users to become stakeholders in the ecosystem. Along with exploring core concepts of Web3 like DAOs, tokens, dApps, and Ethereum, this book will also examine the main categories that are poised for enormous opportunities. They include infrastructure, consumer apps, enterpriseapps, and the metaverse. For each of these, I will have use cases of successful companies. How To Create a Web3 Startup covers the unique funding strategies, the toolsets needed, the talent required, the go-to-market approaches, and challenges faced. What You'll LearnWork with the dev stack componentsExamine the success factors for infrastructure, consumer, enterprise, verticals, and the MetaverseUnderstand the risks of Web3, like the regulatory structure and security breachesWho This Book Is ForStartup entrepreneurs and those looking to work in the Web3 industry.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Convergent Cognitive Information Technologies, Convergent 2018, held in Moscow, Russia, in December 2018. The 26 revised full papers and 9 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 147 submissions. The papers of this volume are organized in topical sections on theoretical questions of computer science, computational mathematics, computer science and cognitive information technologies; cognitive information technologies in control systems; big data and applications; the Internet of Things (IoT): standards, communication and information technologies, network applications; smart cities: standards, cognitive-information technologies and their applications.- cognitive information technologies in the digital economics.- digital transformation of transport.

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 19th International Conference on Membrane Computing (CMC19), CMC 2018, which was held in Dresden, Germany, in September 2018. The 15 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 20 submissions. The contributions aim to abstract computing ideas and models from the structure and the functioning of living cells, as well as from the way the cells are organized in tissues or higher order structures.

This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Software Process Improvement and Capability Determination, SPICE 2018, held in Tessaloniki, Greece, in October 2018. The 26 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 40 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: SPI systematic literature reviews; SPI and assessment; SPI methods and reference models; SPI education and management issues; SPI knowledge and change processes; SPI compliance and configuration; SPI and agile; industry short papers.

Bidirectional transformations (BX) are means of maintaining consistency between multiple information sources: when one source is edited, the others may need updating to restore consistency. BX have applications in databases, user interface design, model-driven development, and many other domains. This volume represents the lecture notes from the Summer School on Bidirectional Transformations, held in Oxford, UK, in July 2016. The school was one of the final activities on the project'A Theory of Least Change for Bidirectional Transformations', running at the University of Oxford and the University of Edinburgh from 2013 to 2017 and funded by the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. The five chapters included in this volume are a record of most of the material presented at the summer school. After a comprehensive introduction to bidirectional transformations, they deal with triple graph grammars, modular edit lenses, putback-based bidirectional programming, and engineering of bidirectional transformations.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th Conference on Computability in Europe, CiE 2018, held in Kiel, Germany, in July/ August 2017.The 26 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 55 submissions. In addition, this volume includes 15 invited papers. The conference CiE 2018 has six special sessions, namely: Approximation and optimization, Bioinformatics and bio-inspired computing, computing with imperfect information, continuous computation, history and philosophy of computing (celebrating the 80th birthday of Martin Davis), and SAT-solving.

The three-volume set LNCS 10624, 10625, 10626 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptology and Information Security, ASIACRYPT 2017, held in Hong Kong, China, in December 2017.The 65 revised full papers were carefully selected from 243 submissions. They are organized in topical sections on Post-Quantum Cryptography; Symmetric Key Cryptanalysis; Lattices; Homomorphic Encryptions; Access Control; Oblivious Protocols; Side Channel Analysis; Pairing-based Protocols; Quantum Algorithms; Elliptic Curves; Block Chains; Multi-Party Protocols; Operating Modes Security Proofs; Cryptographic Protocols; Foundations; Zero-Knowledge Proofs; and Symmetric Key Designs.

The three-volume set LNCS 10624, 10625, 10626 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptology and Information Security, ASIACRYPT 2017, held in Hong Kong, China, in December 2017.The 65 revised full papers were carefully selected from 243 submissions. They are organized in topical sections on Post-Quantum Cryptography; Symmetric Key Cryptanalysis; Lattices; Homomorphic Encryptions; Access Control; Oblivious Protocols; Side Channel Analysis; Pairing-based Protocols; Quantum Algorithms; Elliptic Curves; Block Chains; Multi-Party Protocols; Operating Modes Security Proofs; Cryptographic Protocols; Foundations; Zero-Knowledge Proofs; and Symmetric Key Designs.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 18th International System Design Language Forum, SDL 2017, held in Budapest, Hungary, in October 2017. The 10 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 17 submissions. The selected papers cover a wide spectrum of topics related to system design languages ranging from the system design language usage to UML and GRL models; model-driven engineering of database queries; network service design and regression testing; and modeling for Internet of Things (IoT) data processing.

The three-volume set LNCS 10624, 10625, 10626 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptology and Information Security, ASIACRYPT 2017, held in Hong Kong, China, in December 2017.The 65 revised full papers were carefully selected from 243 submissions. They are organized in topical sections on Post-Quantum Cryptography; Symmetric Key Cryptanalysis; Lattices; Homomorphic Encryptions; Access Control; Oblivious Protocols; Side Channel Analysis; Pairing-based Protocols; Quantum Algorithms; Elliptic Curves; Block Chains; Multi-Party Protocols; Operating Modes Security Proofs; Cryptographic Protocols; Foundations; Zero-Knowledge Proofs; and Symmetric Key Designs.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 19th International Workshop on Computer Algebra in Scientific Computing, CASC 2017, held in Beijing, China, in September 2017.The 28 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 33 submissions. They deal with cutting-edge research in all major disciplines of Computer Algebra.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 23rd International Working Conference on Requirements Engineering - Foundation for Software Quality, REFSQ 2017, held in Essen, Germany, in February/March 2017. The 16 full papers and 10 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 77 submissions. The papers were organized in topical sections named: use case models; ecosystems and innovation; human factors in requirements engineering; goal-orientation in requirements engineering; communication and collaboration; process and tool integration; visualization and representation of requirements; agile requirements engineering; natural language processing, information retrieval and machine learning traceability; quality of natural language requirements; research methodology in requirements engineering.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 29th IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference on Testing Software and Systems ICTSS 2017, held in St. Petersburg, Russia, in October 2017. The 18 full papers and 4 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 41 submissions. The topics of the volume cover model based testing; test derivation and monitoring; fault localization and system testing including real time systems.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Principles of Security and Trust, POST 2017, which took place in Uppsala, Sweden in April 2017, held as Part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2017.The 14 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 40 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: information flow; security protocols; security policies; and information leakage.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering, ENASE 2016, held in Rome, Italy, in April 2016.The 11 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 79 submissions. The mission of ENASE is to be a prime international forum to discuss and publish research findings and IT industry experiences with relation to the evaluation of novel approaches to software engineering. The conference acknowledges necessary changes in systems and software thinking due to contemporary shifts of computing paradigm to e-services, cloud computing, mobile connectivity, business processes, and societal participation.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on the Theory and Application of Cryptographic Techniques in Africa, AFRICACRYPT 2017, held in Dakar, Senegal, in May 2017.The 13 papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 40 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on cryptographic schemes, side-channel analysis, differential cryptanalysis, applications, and number theory.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Data Integration in the Life Sciences, DILS 2017, held in Luxembourg, in November 2017. The 5 full papers and 5 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 16 submissions. They cover topics such as: life science data modelling; analysing, indexing, and querying life sciences datasets; annotating, matching, and sharing life sciences datasets; privacy and provenance of life sciences datasets.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Unconventional Computation and Natural Computation, UCNC 2017, held in Fayetteville, AR, USA in June 2017. The 14 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 21 submissions. The UCNC series of international conferences is genuinely interdisciplinary and it covers theory as well as experiments and applications. It is concerned with various proposals for computation that go beyond the Turing model, human designed computation inspired by nature, and with the computational nature of processes taking place in nature. Typical, but not exclusive, topics are: hypercomputation; chaos and dynamical systems based computing; granular, fuzzy and rough computing; mechanical computing; cellular, evolutionary, molecular, neural, and quantum computing; membrane computing; amorphous computing, swarm intelligence; artificial immune systems;physics of computation; chemical computation; evolving hardware; the computational nature of self-assembly, developmental processes, bacterial communication, and brain processes.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second Conference on Security of Industrial Control Systems and Cyber-Physical Systems, CyberICPS 2016, held in Crete, Greece, in September 2016 in conjunction with ESORICS 2016, the 21st annual European Symposium on Research in Computer Security. The 5 revised full papers 2 invited papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 18 initial submissions. CyberICPS 2016 focuses on topics related to the management of cyber security in industrial control systems and cyber-physical systems, including security monitoring, trust management, security policies and measures.

The two-volume set LNCS 10031 and LNCS 10032 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptology and Information Security, ASIACRYPT 2016, held in Hanoi, Vietnam, in December 2016. The 67 revised full papers and 2 invited talks presented were carefully selected from 240 submissions. They are organized in topical sections on Mathematical Analysis; AES and White-Box; Hash Function; Randomness; Authenticated Encryption; Block Cipher; SCA and Leakage Resilience; Zero Knowledge; Post Quantum Cryptography; Provable Security; Digital Signature; Functional and Homomorphic Cryptography; ABE and IBE; Foundation; Cryptographic Protocol; Multi-Party Computation.

The two-volume set LNCS 10031 and LNCS 10032 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptology and Information Security, ASIACRYPT 2016, held in Hanoi, Vietnam, in December 2016. The 67 revised full papers and 2 invited talks presented were carefully selected from 240 submissions. They are organized in topical sections on Mathematical Analysis; AES and White-Box; Hash Function; Randomness; Authenticated Encryption; Block Cipher; SCA and Leakage Resilience; Zero Knowledge; Post Quantum Cryptography; Provable Security; Digital Signature; Functional and Homomorphic Cryptography; ABE and IBE; Foundation; Cryptographic Protocol; Multi-Party Computation.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 12th European Conference on Modelling Foundations and Applications, ECMFA 2016, held as part of STAF 2016, in Vienna, Austria, in July 2016. The 16 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 47 submissions. The committee decided to accept 16 papers, 12 papers for the Foundations Track and 4 papers for the Applications Track. Papers on a wide range of MBE aspects were accepted, including topics such as multi- and many models, language engineering, UML and meta-modeling, experience reports and case studies, and variability and uncertainty.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Software Engineering for Resilient Systems, SERENE 2016, held in Gothenburg, Sweden, in September 2016.The 10 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 15 submissions. They cover the following areas: development of resilient systems; incremental development processes for resilient systems; requirements engineering and re-engineering for resilience; frameworks, patterns and software architectures for resilience; engineering of self-healing autonomic systems; design of trustworthy and intrusion-safe systems; resilience at run-time (mechanisms, reasoning and adaptation); resilience and dependability (resilience vs. robustness, dependable vs. adaptive systems); verification, validation and evaluation of resilience; modeling and model based analysis of resilience properties; formal and semi-formal techniques for verification and validation; experimental evaluations of resilient systems; quantitative approaches to ensuring resilience; resilience prediction; cast studies and applications; empirical studies in the domain of resilient systems; methodologies adopted in industrial contexts; cloud computing and resilient service provisioning; resilience for data-driven systems (e.g., big data-based adaption and resilience); resilient cyber-physical systems and infrastructures; global aspects of resilience engineering: education, training and cooperation.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 278th IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference on Testing Software and Systems, ICTSS 2016, held in Graz, Austria, in October 2016. The 12 revised full papers and 6 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 41 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on testing methodologies, heuristics and non-determinism in testing, practical applications, and short contributions.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th Brazilian Symposium on Formal Methods, SBMF 2016, which took place in Natal, Brazil, in November 2016.The 12 papers presented together with two invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 22 submissions. They are organized in the following topical sections: analysis and verification; modeling and logic; and model checking.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 21st International Symposium on Formal Methods, FM 2016, held in Limassol, Cyprus, in November 2016. The 38 full papers and 11 short papers presented together with one abstract of an invited talk and one invited presentation were carefully reviewed and selected from 162 submissions. The broad topics of interest for FM include: interdisciplinary formal methods; formal methods in practice; tools for formal methods; role of formal methods in software and systems engineering; theoretical foundations.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security, ACNS 2016, held in Guildford, UK. in June 2016. 5. The 35 revised full papers included in this volume and presented together with 2 invited talks, were carefully reviewed and selected from 183 submissions.ACNS is an annual conference focusing on innovative research and current developments that advance the areas of applied cryptography, cyber security and privacy.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Human Aspects of Information Security, Privacy, and Trust, HAS 2016, held as part of the 18th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2016, held in Toronto, ON, Canada, in July 2016 and received a total of 4354 submissions, of which 1287 papers were accepted for publication after a careful reviewing process. These papers address the latest research and development efforts and highlight the human aspects of design and use of computing systems. The papers thoroughly cover the entire field of Human-Computer Interaction, addressing major advances in knowledge and effective use of computers in a variety of application areas. The 25 papers presented in the HAS 2016 proceedings are organized in topical sections as follows: human factors of authentication; security, privacy, and human behavior; and security technologies.

This volume contains the refereed joint proceedings of two initiatives that have been devoted to the formal foundations of complex systems: the workshops WS-FM:FASOCC 2014 and WS-FM/BEAT 2015. The 11th International Workshop on Web Services and Formal Methods: Formal Aspects of Services-Oriented and Cloud Computing, WS-FM 2014, took place in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, in September 2014. The 12th International Workshop on Web Services, Formal Methods, and Behavioral Types, WS-FM 2015, took place in Madrid, Spain, in September 2015. The total of 8 papers presented in this volume was carefully reviewed and selected from 18 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: expressiveness of behavioral models; service-oriented systems, and behavioral types.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on the Theory and Application of Cryptographic Techniques in Africa, AFRICACRYPT 2016, held in Fes, Morooco, in April 2016. The 18 papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 65 submissions. The aim of Africacrypt 2016 is to provide an international forum for practitioners and researchers from industry, academia and government from all over the world for a wide ranging discussion of all forms of cryptography. Topics of interest are such as lattices; elliptic curves; secret-key cryptanalysis; efficient implementations; secure protocols; and public-key cryptography.

The LASER Summer School is intended for professionals from industry (engineers and managers) as well as university researchers, including PhD students. Participants learn about the most important software technology advances from pioneers in the field. Since its inception in 2004, the LASER Summer School has focused on an important software engineering topic each year. This volume contains selected lecture notes from the 10th LASER Summer School on Software Engineering: Leading-Edge Software Engineering.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 22nd International Working Conference on Requirements Engineering – Foundation for Software Quality, REFSQ 2016, held in Gothenburg, Sweden, in March 2016. The 16 full papers and 5 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 64 submissions. The papers were organized in topical sections named: decision making in requirements engineering; open source in requirements engineering; natural language; compliance in requirements engineering; requirements engineering in the automotive domain; empirical studies in requirements engineering; requirements engineering foundations; human factors in requirements engineering; and research methodology in requirements engineering.

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 18th Brazilian Symposium on Formal Methods, SBMF 2015, which took place in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, in September 2015. The 11 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 25 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: model checking; languages and semantics; refinement and verification; testing and evaluation.

This book constitutes the revised selected papers from the 12th International Conference on Formal Aspects of Component Software, FACS 2015, held in Niterói, Brazil, in October 2015. The 15 full papers and 2 invited papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 33 submissions. They are organized in topical sections, namely quality of service to withstand faults, component-based software development through research on mathematical models for components, composition and adaptation; rigorous approaches to verification, deployment, testing, and certification.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Business Process Management, BPM 2016, held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in September 2016.The focus of the conference covers a range of papers focusing on automated discovery, conformance checking, modeling foundations, understandability of process representations, runtime management and predictive monitoring. The topics selected by the authors demonstrate an increasing interest of the research community in the area of process mining, resonated by an equally fast-growing uptake by different industry sectors.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security, ACNS 2015, held in New York, NY, USA, in June 2015. The 33 revised full papers included in this volume and presented together with 2 abstracts of invited talks, were carefully reviewed and selected from 157 submissions. They are organized in topical sections on secure computation: primitives and new models; public key cryptographic primitives; secure computation II: applications; anonymity and related applications; cryptanalysis and attacks (symmetric crypto); privacy and policy enforcement; authentication via eye tracking and proofs of proximity; malware analysis and side channel attacks; side channel countermeasures and tamper resistance/PUFs; and leakage resilience and pseudorandomness.

This book constitutes revised papers of the proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on System Analysis and Modeling, SAM 2016, held in Saint-Melo, France, in October 2016. The 15 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 31 submissions. The contributions are organized in topical theme named: Technology-Specific Aspects of Models. The volume reflects the five sessions of the conference. The first two sessions are closely aligned with the conference theme with a session on the Internet of Things and a session on Technology-specific Aspects. The other three sessions cover aspects regarding modeling languages and model-driven development in general and were organized in the sessions Languages, Configurations and Features, and Patterns and Compilation.

The LNCS Transactions on Foundations for Mastering Change, FoMaC, aims to establish a forum for formal-methods-based research, dealing with the nature of today's agile system development, which is characterized by unclear premises, unforeseen change, and the need for fast reaction, in a context of hard-to-control frame conditions, such as third-party components, network problems, and attacks. Submissions are evaluated according to these goals. This book, the first volume in the series, contains contributions by the members of the editorial board. These contributions indicate the envisioned style and range of papers of topics covered by the transactions series. They cross-cut various traditional research directions and are characterized by a clear focus on change.

The two-volume set LNCS 9452 and 9453 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 21st International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptology and Information Security, ASIACRYPT 2015, held in Auckland, New Zealand, in November/December 2015. The 64 revised full papers and 3 invited talks presented were carefully selected from 251 submissions. They are organized in topical sections on indistinguishability obfuscation; PRFs and hashes; discrete logarithms and number theory; signatures; multiparty computation; public key encryption; ABE and IBE; zero-knowledge; attacks on ASASA; number field sieve; hashes and MACs; symmetric encryption; foundations; side-channel attacks; design of block ciphers; authenticated encryption; symmetric analysis; cryptanalysis; privacy and lattices.

The two-volume set LNCS 9452 and 9453 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 21st International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptology and Information Security, ASIACRYPT 2015, held in Auckland, New Zealand, in November/December 2015. The 64 revised full papers and 3 invited talks presented were carefully selected from 251 submissions. They are organized in topical sections on indistinguishability obfuscation; PRFs and hashes; discrete logarithms and number theory; signatures; multiparty computation; public key encryption; ABE and IBE; zero-knowledge; attacks on ASASA; number field sieve; hashes and MACs; symmetric encryption; foundations; side-channel attacks; design of block ciphers; authenticated encryption; symmetric analysis; cryptanalysis; privacy and lattices.

The development of modern complex software-intensive systems often involves the use of multiple DSMLs that capture different system aspects. Supporting coordinated use of DSMLs leads to what we call the globalization of modeling languages, that is, the use of multiple modeling languages to support coordinated development of diverse aspects of a system. In this book, a number of articles describe the vision and the way globalized DSMLs currently assist integrated DSML support teams working on systems that span many domains and concerns to determine how their work on a particular aspect influences work on other aspects. Globalized DSMLs offer support for communicating relevant information, and for coordinating development activities and associated technologies within and across teams, in addition to providing support for imposing control over development artifacts produced by multiple teams. DSMLs can be used to support socio-technical coordination by providing the means for stakeholders to bridge the gap between how they perceive a problem and its solution, and the programming technologies used to implement a solution. They also support coordination of work across multiple teams. DSMLs developed in an independent manner to meet the specific needs of domain experts have an associated framework that regulates interactions needed to support collaboration and work coordination across different system domains. The articles in the book describe how multiple heterogeneous modeling languages (or DSMLs) can be related to determine how different aspects of a system influence each other. The book includes a research roadmap that broadens the current DSML research focus beyond the development of independent DSMLs to one that provides support for globalized DSMLs.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 27th IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference on Testing Software and Systems, ICTSS 2015, held in Sharjah and Dubai, United Arab Emirates, in November 2015. The 14 revised full papers and 4 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 42 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on model based testing, test derivation methods, monitoring and fault localization, model and system testing, and real-time systems.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17 International Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems, SSS 2015, held in Edmonton, AB, Canada, in August 2015. The 16 regular papers presented together with 8 brief announcements and 3 keynote lectures were carefully reviewed and selected from 38 submissions. The Symposium is organized in several tracks, reflecting topics to self-•properties. The tracks are self-stabilization; fault-tolerance and dependability; ad-hoc and sensor networks; mobile agents; system security in distributed computing; and formal methods and distributed algorithms.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 11th European Conference on Modelling Foundations and Applications, ECMFA 2015, held as part of STAF 2015, in L`Aquila, Utaly, in July 2015. The 13 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 54 submissions. The committee decided to accept 13 papers, 9 papers for the Foundations Track and 4 papers for the Applications Track. Papers on a wide range of MBE aspects were accepted, including topics such as aspect-oriented modeling, model management, model transformation, advanced meta-modeling, UML modeling tools, and domain-specific modeling w.r.t. energy consumption and cloud-based systems.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Model Transformation, ICMT 2015, held in L'Aquila, Italy, in July 2015, as Part of STAF 2015, the federation of a number of the leading conferences on software technologies. The 16 revised papers were carefully selected from 34 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on change management; reuse and industrial applications; new paradigms for model transformation; transformation validation and verification; and foundations of model transformation.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 20th International Working Conference on Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality, REFSQ 2014, held in Essen, Germany, in April 2013. The 23 papers presented together with 1 keynote were carefully reviewed and selected from 62 submissions. The REFSQ'15 conference is organized as a three-day symposium. The REFSQ'15 has chosen a special conference theme “I heard it first at RefsQ”. Two conference days were devoted to presentation and discussion of scientific papers. The two days connect to the conference theme with a keynote, an invited talk and poster presentations. There were two parallel tracks on the third day: the Industry Track and the new Research Methodology Track. REFSQ 2015 seeks reports of novel ideas and techniques that enhance the quality of RE's products and processes, as well as reflections on current research and industrial RE practices.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 17th International System Design Language Forum, SDL 2015, held in Berlin, Germany, in October 2015. The 15 full papers and 4 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 26 submissions. They are organized in topical sections named: smart cities and distributed systems; specification and description language; domain specific languages; goal modeling; use-case modeling; and model-based testing.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 20th International Symposium on Formal Methods, FM 2015, held in Oslo, Norway, in June 2015. The 30 full papers and 2 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 124 submissions. The papers cover a wide spectrum of all the different aspects of the use of and the research on formal methods for software development.