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Covers conferences:
ICSEA, ICCGI, ADVCOMP, GEOProcessing, DBKDA, VALID, SIMUL, FUTURE COMPUTING, SERVICE COMPUTATION, COGNITIVE, ADAPTIVE, CONTENT, PATTERNS, CLOUD COMPUTING, COMPUTATION TOOLS, IMMM, MOBILITY, VEHICULAR, DATA ANALYTICS, FASSI, ACHI, ALLDATA, SOFTENG
issn: 1942-2628

The topic spectrum of the journal covers advanced topics in software architectures, software engineering, software development and deployment, software quality metrics, software testing and maintenance, software for advanced computations, processing distributed geospatial databases, and software economics and empirical metrics.

Special topics will focus on non-operational requirements, software security and robustness, agile software and methodologies, software rejuvenation, open source software, special design and implementation tools, benchmarking, software accessibility, software for real-time applications, computer-aided software design, special GUI techniques, and web-based software development.

Editor-in-Chief

Petre Dini, IARIA, USA

Editorial Advisory Board

Hermann Kaindl, TU-Wien, Austria
Herwig Mannaert, University of Antwerp, Belgium

Subject-Expert Associated Editors

Sanjay Bhulai, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands (DATA ANALYTICS)
Emanuele Covino, Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro, Italy (COMPUTATION TOOLS)
Robert (Bob) Duncan, University of Aberdeen, UK (ICCGI & CLOUD COMPUTING)
Venkat Naidu Gudivada, East Carolina University, USA (ALLDATA)
Andreas Hausotter, Hochschule Hannover - University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Germany (SERVICE COMPUTATION)
Sergio Ilarri, University of Zaragoza, Spain (DBKDA + FUTURE COMPUTING)
Christopher Ireland, The Open University, UK (FASSI + VALID + SIMUL)
Alex Mirnig, University of Salzburg, Austria (CONTENT + PATTERNS)
Jaehyun Park, Incheon National University (INU), South Korea (ACHI)
Claus-Peter Rückemann, Leibniz Universität Hannover / Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster / North-German Supercomputing Alliance (HLRN), Germany (GEOProcessing + ADVCOMP + INFOCOMP)
Markus Ullmann, Federal Office for Information Security / University of Applied Sciences Bonn-Rhine-Sieg, Germany (VEHICULAR + MOBILITY)

Editorial Board

Witold Abramowicz, The Poznan University of Economics, Poland
Abdelkader Adla, University of Oran, Algeria
Syed Nadeem Ahsan, Technical University Graz, Austria / Iqra University, Pakistan
Marc Aiguier, École Centrale Paris, France
Rajendra Akerkar, Western Norway Research Institute, Norway
Zaher Al Aghbari, University of Sharjah, UAE
Riccardo Albertoni, Istituto per la Matematica Applicata e Tecnologie Informatiche “Enrico Magenes” Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, (IMATI-CNR), Italy / Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Ahmed Al-Moayed, Hochschule Furtwangen University, Germany
Giner Alor Hernández, Instituto Tecnológico de Orizaba, México
Zakarya Alzamil, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia
Frederic Amblard, IRIT - Université Toulouse 1, France
Vincenzo Ambriola , Università di Pisa, Italy
Andreas S. Andreou, Cyprus University of Technology - Limassol, Cyprus
Annalisa Appice, Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro, Italy
Philip Azariadis, University of the Aegean, Greece
Thierry Badard, Université Laval, Canada
Muneera Bano, International Islamic University - Islamabad, Pakistan
Fabian Barbato, Technology University ORT, Montevideo, Uruguay
Peter Baumann, Jacobs University Bremen / Rasdaman GmbH Bremen, Germany
Gabriele Bavota, University of Salerno, Italy
Grigorios N. Beligiannis, University of Western Greece, Greece
Noureddine Belkhatir, University of Grenoble, France
Jorge Bernardino, ISEC - Institute Polytechnic of Coimbra, Portugal
Rudolf Berrendorf, Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences - Sankt Augustin, Germany
Ateet Bhalla, Independent Consultant, India
Fernando Boronat Seguí, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
Pierre Borne, Ecole Centrale de Lille, France
Farid Bourennani, University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT), Canada
Narhimene Boustia, Saad Dahlab University - Blida, Algeria
Hongyu Pei Breivold, ABB Corporate Research, Sweden
Carsten Brockmann, Universität Potsdam, Germany
Antonio Bucchiarone, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy
Georg Buchgeher, Software Competence Center Hagenberg GmbH, Austria
Dumitru Burdescu, University of Craiova, Romania
Martine Cadot, University of Nancy / LORIA, France
 Isabel Candal-Vicente, Universidad Ana G. Méndez, Puerto Rico
Juan-Vicente Capella-Hernández, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
Jose Carlos Metrolho, Polytechnic Institute of Castelo Branco, Portugal
Alain Casali, Aix-Marseille University, France
Yaser Chaaban, Leibniz University of Hanover, Germany
Savvas A. Chatzichristofis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece
Antonin Chazalet, Orange, France
Jiann-Liang Chen, National Dong Hwa University, China
Shiping Chen, CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia
Wen-Shiung Chen, National Chi Nan University, Taiwan
Zhe Chen, College of Computer Science and Technology, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China PR
Yoonsik Cheon, The University of Texas at El Paso, USA
Lau Cheuk Lung, INE/UFSC, Brazil
Robert Chew, Lien Centre for Social Innovation, Singapore
Andrew Connor, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand
Rebeca Cortázar, University of Deusto, Spain
Noël Crespi, Institut Telecom, Telecom SudParis, France
Carlos E. Cuesta, Rey Juan Carlos University, Spain
Duilio Curcio, University of Calabria, Italy
Mirela Danubianu, "Stefan cel Mare" University of Suceava, Romania
Paulo Asterio de Castro Guerra, Tapijara Programação de Sistemas Ltda. - Lambari, Brazil
Cláudio de Souza Baptista, University of Campina Grande, Brazil
Maria del Pilar Angeles, Universidad Nacional Autonónoma de México, México
Rafael del Vado Vírseda, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Giovanni Denaro, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
Nirmit Desai, IBM Research, India
Vincenzo Deufemia, Università di Salerno, Italy
Leandro Dias da Silva, Universidade Federal de Alagoas, Brazil
Javier Diaz, Rutgers University, USA
Nicholas John Dingle, University of Manchester, UK
Roland Dodd, CQUniversity, Australia
Aijuan Dong, Hood College, USA
Suzana Dragicevic, Simon Fraser University- Burnaby, Canada
Cédric du Mouza, CNAM, France
Ann Dunkin, Palo Alto Unified School District, USA
Jana Dvorakova, Comenius University, Slovakia
Hans-Dieter Ehrich, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany
Jorge Ejarque, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain
Atilla Elçi, Aksaray University, Turkey
Khaled El-Fakih, American University of Sharjah, UAE
Gledson Elias, Federal University of Paraíba, Brazil
Sameh Elnikety, Microsoft Research, USA
Fausto Fasano, University of Molise, Italy
Michael Felderer, University of Innsbruck, Austria
João M. Fernandes, Universidade de Minho, Portugal
Luis Fernandez-Sanz, University of de Alcala, Spain
Felipe Ferraz, C.E.S.A.R, Brazil
Adina Magda Florea, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania
Wolfgang Fohl, Hamburg Universiy, Germany
Simon Fong, University of Macau, Macau SAR
Gianluca Franchino, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy
Naoki Fukuta, Shizuoka University, Japan
Martin Gaedke, Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany
Félix J. García Clemente, University of Murcia, Spain
José García-Fanjul, University of Oviedo, Spain
Felipe Garcia-Sanchez, Universidad Politecnica de Cartagena (UPCT), Spain
Michael Gebhart, Gebhart Quality Analysis (QA) 82, Germany
Tejas R. Gandhi, Virtua Health-Marlton, USA
Andrea Giachetti, Università degli Studi di Verona, Italy
Afzal Godil, National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA
Luis Gomes, Universidade Nova Lisboa, Portugal
Pascual Gonzalez, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
Björn Gottfried, University of Bremen, Germany
Victor Govindaswamy, Texas A&M University, USA
Gregor Grambow, AristaFlow GmbH, Germany
Christoph Grimm, University of Kaiserslautern, Austria
Michael Grottke, University of Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany
Vic Grout, Glyndwr University, UK
Ensar Gul, Marmara University, Turkey
Richard Gunstone, Bournemouth University, UK
Zhensheng Guo, Siemens AG, Germany
Ismail Hababeh, German Jordanian University, Jordan
Shahliza Abd Halim, Lecturer in Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia
Herman Hartmann, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Jameleddine Hassine, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Mineral (KFUPM), Saudi Arabia
Tzung-Pei Hong, National University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Peizhao Hu, NICTA, Australia
Chih-Cheng Hung, Southern Polytechnic State University, USA
Edward Hung, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Noraini Ibrahim, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia
Anca Daniela Ionita, University "POLITEHNICA" of Bucharest, Romania
Chris Ireland, Open University, UK
Kyoko Iwasawa, Takushoku University - Tokyo, Japan
Mehrshid Javanbakht, Azad University - Tehran, Iran
Wassim Jaziri, ISIM Sfax, Tunisia
Dayang Norhayati Abang Jawawi, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), Malaysia
Jinyuan Jia, Tongji University. Shanghai, China
Maria Joao Ferreira, Universidade Portucalense, Portugal
Ahmed Kamel, Concordia College, Moorhead, Minnesota, USA
Teemu Kanstrén, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Finland
Nittaya Kerdprasop, Suranaree University of Technology, Thailand
Ayad ali Keshlaf, Newcastle University, UK
Nhien An Le Khac, University College Dublin, Ireland
Sadegh Kharazmi, RMIT University - Melbourne, Australia
Kyoung-Sook Kim, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan
Youngjae Kim, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
Cornel Klein, Siemens AG, Germany
Alexander Knapp, University of Augsburg, Germany
Radek Koci, Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic
Christian Kop, University of Klagenfurt, Austria
Michal Krátký, VŠB - Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic
Narayanan Kulathuramaiyer, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, Malaysia
Satoshi Kurihara, Osaka University, Japan
Eugenijus Kurilovas, Vilnius University, Lithuania
Alla Lake, Linfo Systems, LLC, USA
Fritz Laux, Reutlingen University, Germany
Luigi Lavazza, Università dell'Insubria, Italy
Fábio Luiz Leite Júnior, Universidade Estadual da Paraiba,Brazil
Alain Lelu, University of Franche-Comté / LORIA, France
Cynthia Y. Lester, Georgia Perimeter College, USA
Clement Leung, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
Weidong Li, University of Connecticut, USA
Corrado Loglisci, University of Bari, Italy
Francesco Longo, University of Calabria, Italy
Sérgio F. Lopes, University of Minho, Portugal
Pericles Loucopoulos, Loughborough University, UK
Alen Lovrencic, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Qifeng Lu, MacroSys, LLC, USA
Xun Luo, Qualcomm Inc., USA
Stephane Maag, Telecom SudParis, France
Ricardo J. Machado, University of Minho, Portugal
Maryam Tayefeh Mahmoudi, Research Institute for ICT, Iran
Nicos Malevris, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece
Herwig Mannaert, University of Antwerp, Belgium
José Manuel Molina López, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
Francesco Marcelloni, University of Pisa, Italy
Eda Marchetti, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Italy
Gerasimos Marketos, University of Piraeus, Greece
Abel Marrero, Bombardier Transportation, Germany
Adriana Martin, Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia Austral / Universidad Nacional del Comahue, Argentina
Goran Martinovic, J.J. Strossmayer University of Osijek, Croatia
Paulo Martins, University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro (UTAD), Portugal
Stephan Mäs, Technical University of Dresden, Germany
Constandinos Mavromoustakis, University of Nicosia, Cyprus
Jose Merseguer, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain
Seyedeh Leili Mirtaheri, Iran University of Science & Technology, Iran
Lars Moench, University of Hagen, Germany
Yasuhiko Morimoto, Hiroshima University, Japan
Antonio Navarro Martín, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Filippo Neri, University of Naples, Italy
Muaz A. Niazi, Bahria University, Islamabad, Pakistan
Natalja Nikitina, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Roy Oberhauser, Aalen University, Germany
Pablo Oliveira Antonino, Fraunhofer IESE, Germany
Rocco Oliveto, University of Molise, Italy
Sascha Opletal, Universität Stuttgart, Germany
Flavio Oquendo, European University of Brittany/IRISA-UBS, France
Claus Pahl, Dublin City University, Ireland
Marcos Palacios, University of Oviedo, Spain
Constantin Paleologu, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania
Kai Pan, UNC Charlotte, USA
Yiannis Papadopoulos, University of Hull, UK
Andreas Papasalouros, University of the Aegean, Greece
Rodrigo Paredes, Universidad de Talca, Chile
Päivi Parviainen, VTT Technical Research Centre, Finland
João Pascoal Faria, Faculty of Engineering of University of Porto / INESC TEC, Portugal
Fabrizio Pastore, University of Milano - Bicocca, Italy
Kunal Patel, Ingenuity Systems, USA
Óscar Pereira, Instituto de Telecomunicacoes - University of Aveiro, Portugal
Willy Picard, Poznań University of Economics, Poland
Jose R. Pires Manso, University of Beira Interior, Portugal
Sören Pirk, Universität Konstanz, Germany
Meikel Poess, Oracle Corporation, USA
Thomas E. Potok, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
Christian Prehofer, Fraunhofer-Einrichtung für Systeme der Kommunikationstechnik ESK, Germany
Ela Pustułka-Hunt, Bundesamt für Statistik, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Mengyu Qiao, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, USA
Kornelije Rabuzin, University of Zagreb, Croatia
J. Javier Rainer Granados, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Muthu Ramachandran, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK
Thurasamy Ramayah, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia
Prakash Ranganathan, University of North Dakota, USA
José Raúl Romero, University of Córdoba, Spain
Henrique Rebêlo, Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil
Hassan Reza, UND Aerospace, USA
Elvinia Riccobene, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Daniel Riesco, Universidad Nacional de San Luis, Argentina
Mathieu Roche, LIRMM / CNRS / Univ. Montpellier 2, France
José Rouillard, University of Lille, France
Siegfried Rouvrais, TELECOM Bretagne, France
Claus-Peter Rückemann, Leibniz Universität Hannover / Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster / North-German Supercomputing Alliance, Germany
Djamel Sadok, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil
Ismael Sanz, Universitat Jaume I, Spain
M. Saravanan, Ericsson India Pvt. Ltd -Tamil Nadu, India
Idrissa Sarr, University of Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar, Senegal / University of Quebec, Canada
Patrizia Scandurra, University of Bergamo, Italy
Daniel Schall, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Rainer Schmidt, Munich University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Sebastian Senge, TU Dortmund, Germany
Isabel Seruca, Universidade Portucalense - Porto, Portugal
Kewei Sha, Oklahoma City University, USA
Simeon Simoff, University of Western Sydney, Australia
Jacques Simonin, Institut Telecom / Telecom Bretagne, France
Cosmin Stoica Spahiu, University of Craiova, Romania
George Spanoudakis, City University London, UK
Cristian Stanciu, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania
Lena Strömbäck, SMHI, Sweden
Osamu Takaki, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
Antonio J. Tallón-Ballesteros, University of Seville, Spain
Wasif Tanveer, University of Engineering & Technology - Lahore, Pakistan
Ergin Tari, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey
Steffen Thiel, Furtwangen University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Jean-Claude Thill, Univ. of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA
Pierre Tiako, Langston University, USA
Božo Tomas, HT Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Davide Tosi, Università degli Studi dell'Insubria, Italy
Guglielmo Trentin, National Research Council, Italy
Dragos Truscan, Åbo Akademi University, Finland
Chrisa Tsinaraki, Technical University of Crete, Greece
Roland Ukor, FirstLinq Limited, UK
Torsten Ullrich, Fraunhofer Austria Research GmbH, Austria
José Valente de Oliveira, Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
Dieter Van Nuffel, University of Antwerp, Belgium
Shirshu Varma, Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad, India
Konstantina Vassilopoulou, Harokopio University of Athens, Greece
Miroslav Velev, Aries Design Automation, USA
Tanja E. J. Vos, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain
Krzysztof Walczak, Poznan University of Economics, Poland
Yandong Wang, Wuhan University, China
Rainer Weinreich, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
Stefan Wesarg, Fraunhofer IGD, Germany
Wojciech Wiza, Poznan University of Economics, Poland
Martin Wojtczyk, Technische Universität München, Germany
Hao Wu, School of Information Science and Engineering, Yunnan University, China
Mudasser F. Wyne, National University, USA
Zhengchuan Xu, Fudan University, P.R.China
Yiping Yao, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, Hunan, China
Stoyan Yordanov Garbatov, Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores - Investigação e Desenvolvimento, INESC-ID, Portugal
Weihai Yu, University of Tromsø, Norway
Wenbing Zhao, Cleveland State University, USA
Hong Zhu, Oxford Brookes University, UK
Martin Zinner, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany