Front Matter
Venue: Proceeding of the 2007 conference on New Trends in Software Methodologies, Tools and Techniques: Proceedings of the sixth SoMeT_07 (2007)

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 of our expectations. Current software methodologies, tools, and techniques remain expensive and not yet reliable enough for a highly changeable and evolutionary market. Many approaches have been proven only as case-by-case oriented methods. This bookas part of SOMET seriescontributes on new trendstheories in the direction in which we believe software science and engineering may develop to transform the role of software and science integration in tomorrow's global information society. This book is an attempt to capture the essence on 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 highly extensively reviewed papers lectured at the Sixth International Conference on New Trends in Software Methodology Tools, and Techniques, V, (SoMeT_07) held in Rome (CNR), Italy, from 7 to 9 November 2007, (http://www.somet.soft.iwate-pu.ac.jp/somet_07). This conference 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 by this book is software development security tools and techniques. Another example we challenge in this conference is intelligent software design from the human aspect and the technology aspect. This book and the series it continues will also elaborate on such new trends and related academic research studies and development. A major goal 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 investigates 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. For an outline of the past series of related events that contributed to this publication, SoMeT_02 was held on October 3--5, 2002, in Sorbonne, Paris, France. SoMeT_03 was held in Stockholm, Sweden, SoMeT_04 in Leipzig, Germany, SoMeT_05 in Tokyo, Japan, SoMeT_06 in Quebec, Canada, and most recently SoMeT_07 held in Rome, Italy. These events also initiate a future event to be organized in October 2008, (http://www.somet.soft.iwate-pu.ac.jp/somet_08/). This book provides an opportunity for exchanging ideas and experiences in the field of software technology, opening up new avenues for software development, methodologies, tools, and techniques, especially, software security and program coding diagnosis and related software maintenance techniques aspects. Also, we have emphasized human centric software methodologies, end-user development techniques, and human emotional reasoning for best performance harmony between the design tool and the user. Issues discussed are research practices, techniques and methodologies proposing and reporting solutions needed for global world business. We believe that this book creates an opportunity for us in the software science community to think about where we are today and where we are going. The book is a collection of 33 carefully reviewed best-selected papers by the reviewing committee. The areas covered are: • Software engineering aspects on software security, programs diagnosis and maintenance • Static and dynamic analysis on Lyee-oriented software performance model • Software security aspects on Java mobile code, and networking • Practical artefact on software security, software validation and diagnosis • Software optimization and formal methods • Requirement engineering and requirement elicitation • Software methodologies and Lyee oriented software techniques • Automatic software generation, reuse, and legacy systems • Software quality and process assessment • Intelligent software systems and evolution • End-user requirement engineering and programming environment • Ontology and philosophical aspects on software engineering • Business software models and other kinds of software application models, based on Lyee theory All papers published in this book have been carefully reviewed and selected by the SOMET international reviewing committee. Each paper has been reviewed by between three and six reviewers and has been revised based on the review reports. The papers were reviewed on the basis of technical soundness, relevance, originality, significance, and clarity. This book outcome is also a collective effort from many industrial partners and colleagues from around the world. We also gratefully thank Iwate Prefectural University, especially its President Prof. Makoto Taniguchi, CNR Rome, Italy, Catena Co., SANGIKYO Co., ARISES and others for their overwhelming support of this work. We especially are thankful to the reviewing committee and others who participated in the hard effective review of all submitted papers and thanks also for the hot discussions we have had at the review evaluation meetings which selected the contributions in this book. This outcome is another milestone in mastering new challenges in software and its new promising technology, within SoMeT's consecutive events. It also gives the reader new insights, inspiration and concrete material to elaborate and study this new technology. Last but not least, we would like to thank and acknowledge the Microsoft Conference Management Tool team for the support it has provided on the use of Microsoft CMT System as a conference-supporting tool during all the phases of the SOMET transactions. The Editors The ACM Portal is published by the Association for Computing Machinery. Copyright © 2010 ACM, Inc. Terms of Usage Privacy Policy Code of Ethics Contact Us Useful downloads: Adobe Acrobat QuickTime Windows Media Player Real Player