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The concept of processes is central to software and systems engineering, with software process models integrating methods and techniques essential for managing large-scale software and IT projects. High product quality is often a direct result of high process quality. Effective software process management involves controlling processes and their evolution. However, merely knowing existing software process models is insufficient; understanding how to select, define, manage, deploy, evaluate, and evolve these models is crucial to address specific problems and environments. This textbook aims to equip readers with the foundational knowledge needed for these tasks. The authors begin with basic concepts, then introduce representative process models, and explain how to create tailored models, including necessary notations and tools. They also explore various usage scenarios for process management, such as process improvement and software process simulation. The book targets students and researchers focused on software project management, quality assurance, and measurement, as well as practitioners interested in process definition and management for software-intensive systems and services.

The 7th International Conference on Product Focused Software Process Improvement (PROFES 2006) brought together researchers and practitioners to share new research results and experiences in process and product improvement. The conference emphasized understanding, evaluating, and enhancing the relationship between process improvement activities—like innovative defect detection—and their impact on product outcomes, such as reliability and safety. Key topics included the evaluation of existing software process improvement (SPI) approaches in various contexts, the introduction of new or modified SPI strategies, and the connection between SPI and emerging development techniques or application domains. The necessity for SPI is increasingly acknowledged, particularly as software-intensive systems become more prevalent in daily life. This trend highlights the importance of advanced process improvement capabilities and a clear understanding of how processes affect products, services, and business value. The rise of distributed software development, coupled with outsourcing and multi-disciplinary systems, necessitates well-defined development process interfaces, synchronization, and evolution to support effective collaboration across diverse environments.

2010 was the first time that the International Conference on Software Process was held autonomously and not co-located with a larger conference. This was a special challenge and we are glad that the conference gained a lot of attention, a significant number of contributions and many highly interested participants from industry and academia. This volume contains the papers presented at ICSP 2010 held in Paderborn, G- many, during July 8-9, 2010. ICSP 2010 was the fourth conference of the ICSP series. The conference provided a forum for researchers and industrial practitioners to - change new research results, experiences, and findings in the area of software and system process modeling and management. The increasing distribution of development activities, new development paradigms such as cloud computing, new classes of systems such as cyber-physical systems, and short technology cycles are currently driving forces for the software domain. They require appropriate answers with respect to process models and management, suitable modeling concepts, and an understanding of the effects of the processes in specific environments and domains. Many papers in the proceedings address these issues.

The increasing reliance on quality software in various aspects of life underscores the significance of software engineering as a vital discipline today. Over recent decades, demonstrating the value of software engineering methods in real-world settings has gained importance, leading to the emergence of empirical software engineering. A prominent figure in this field is Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Dieter Rombach, who has devoted his career to advancing empirical software engineering. His numerous accolades include the U.S. National Science Foundation’s Presidential Young Investigator Award and the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, and he is a Fellow of both the ACM and the IEEE Computer Society. This book, published in celebration of his 60th birthday, honors Rombach's contributions to software engineering, particularly in empirical methods. It features invited contributions from esteemed researchers like Victor Basili, Barry Boehm, and Michael Jackson, alongside insights from experts at the Fraunhofer IESE, the institute Rombach founded. The book encompasses key trends in software engineering and envisions the future of the field, organized into three sections: foundational concepts, empirical software engineering, and a forward-looking perspective on the discipline.

Die Studie behandelt curriculare und didaktische Fragestellungen und zeigt, dass die Kombination von Fern- und Präsenzstudium besonders geeignet ist, Neuorientierungsprozesse in der Lehrerbildung sowie in der Ausbildung pädagogisch-psychologischer Berufe zu fördern. Die Veränderungen in sonderpädagogischen Aufgaben in Sonderschulen, allgemeinen Schulen und psychosozialen Einrichtungen erfordern einen grundlegenden Perspektivenwechsel sowie neue Qualifizierungsansätze in der Lehrerbildung. Anhand langjähriger Evaluationsbefunde wird die Verbindung von Fern- und Präsenzstudium als flexibler hochschuldidaktischer Weg dargestellt. Die Studie verfolgt drei Hauptperspektiven: die Konvergenz der Aufgaben in Sonderpädagogik und allgemeiner Pädagogik, die kompetenzorientierte Qualifizierung reflektierender Praktiker sowie die Öffnung des Fernstudiums für autonome und kommunikative Lernstrukturen unter Berücksichtigung aktueller Technologien. Darüber hinaus verweist die Studie auf die Möglichkeit, diese Ansätze auch auf andere Bereiche der Lehrerbildung und Professionen wie Sozialpädagogik und Schulpsychologie zu übertragen. Zielgruppen sind Erziehungswissenschaftler, Sonderpädagogen, Psychologen, Hochschuldidaktiker, Lehrerfortbilder und Bildungspolitiker.