Software engineering research management and applications This book presents the outcomes of the 16th International Conference on Software Engineering Artificial Intelligence Research Management and Applications (SERA 2018) which was held in Kunming China on June 13 15 2018. This book presents the outcomes of the 16th International Conference on Software Engineering Artificial Intelligence Research Management and Applications (SERA 2018) which was held in Kunming China on June 13 15 2018. The aim of the conference was to bring together researchers and scientists businessmen and entrepreneurs teachers engineers computer users and students to discuss the various fields of computer science to share their experiences and to exchange new ideas and information in a meaningful way. The book includes findings on all aspects (theory applications and tools) of computer and information science and discusses related practical challenges and the solutions adopted to solve them. The conference organizers selected the best papers from those accepted for presentation. The papers were chosen based on review scores submitted by members of the program committee and underwent a further rigorous round of review. From this second round 13 of the conferences most promising papers were then published in this Springer (SCI) book and not the conference proceedings. We eagerly await the important contributions that we know these authors will make to the field of computer and information science.