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This volume of Springer´s Studies in Computational Intelligence features a dozen outstanding papers from SERA 2011, covering a range of key topics that take in theory, applications and tools, as well as ways in which practical challenges have been overcome.

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The purpose of the 9 th International Conference on Software Engineering Research, Management and Applications(SERA 2011) held on August 10-12, 2011 in Baltimore, Maryland was to bring together scientists, engineers, computer users, and students to share their experiences and exchange new ideas and research results about all aspects (theory, applications and tools) of computer and information sciences, and to discuss the practical challenges encountered along the way and the solutions adopted to solve them.

The conference organizers selected 12 outstanding papers from SERA 2011, all of which you will find in this volume of Springer´s Studies in Computational

Intelligence.

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From the content: Implementing the Modeling-based Approach for Supporting the Software Process Assessment in SPI initiatives inside a Small Software Company.- Predicting 911 Calls Using Spatial Analysis.- A Market-Driven Product Line Scoping.- Clustering and Analyzing Embedded Software Development Projects Data using Self-Organizing maps.- A Study on Guiding Programmers´ Code Navigation with a Graphical Code Recommender.- A Testing Frameworks for Mobile Embedded Systems using
MDA.

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