Software Engineering

The fifth edition of Software Engineering A Practitioner's Approach is intended to serve as a guide to a maturing engineering discipline. The fifth edition, like the four editions that preceded it, is intended for both students and practitioners, retaining its appeal as a guide to the industry professional and a comprehensive introduction to the student at the upper level undergraduate or first year graduate level.

The dependence on quality software in all areas of life is what makes software engineering a key discipline for today’s society. Thus, over the last few decades it has been increasingly recognized that it is particularly important to demonstrate the value of software engineering methods in real-world environments, a task which is the focus of empirical software engineering.

Editors: Pedrycz, Witold, Succi, Giancarlo, Sillitti, Alberto (Eds.)
Offers introductory chapters on Computational Intelligence so that the volume is made self-contained and easily accessible to the community of Computational Intelligence as well as researchers working in Software Engineering
Each chapter is authored by an expert in the area, and includes a comprehensive and fully updated list of references
The main topics are arranged into five sections: Introduction to Computational Intelligence, Principles of Software Engineering, Methodological developments in CI environment of Software Engineering, Algorithmic studies, and Case studies - a suite of representative areas of applications