Part I: Characteristics and Estimation of Software Projects for Distributed Computing

Modelling of Reusability Estimation in Software Design with External Constraints
R. Selvarani and P. Mangayarkarasi

Estimation of Costs and Time for the Development of Distributed Software
Manal El Bajta, Ali Idri, Joaquín Nicolas Ros, José Luis Fernandez-Aleman, and Ambrosio Toval

Using COSMIC for the Functional Size Measurement of Distributed Applications in Cloud Environments
Filomena Ferrucci, Carmine Gravino, and Pasquale Salza

Characteristics of Large-Scale Defense Projects and the Dominance of Software and Software Project Management
Kadir Alpaslan Demir

Software Project Management as a Service (SPMaaS): Perspectives and Benefits
Muthu Ramachandran and Vikrant Chaugule

Part II: Approached and Frameworks for Software Development and Software Project Management

Component-Based Hybrid Reference Architecture for Managing Adaptable Embedded Software Development
Bo Xing

3PR Framework for Software Project Management: People, Processes, Products and Risks
Kadir Alpaslan Demir

CrowdSWD: A Novel Framework for Crowdsourcing Software Development Inspired by the Concept of Biological Metaphor
Tarek A. Ali, Eman S. Nasr, and Mervat H. Gheith

An Approach to Migrate and Manage Software: Cloud Based Requirements Management
Areeg Samir

A Novel Approach to Modelling Distributed Systems - Using Large-Scale Multi-Agent Systems
Bogdan Okresa Đuric

Part III: Advances in Software Project Management and Distributed Software Development

Optimizing Software Error Proneness Prediction using Bird Mating AlgorithmAmrit Pal, Harsh Jain, and Manish Kumar

i(mproved)Agile: A Customized Scrum Process for Project Management in Defense & Security
Luigi Benedicenti, Paolo Ciancarini, Franco Cotugno, Angelo Messina, Alberto Sillitti, and Giancarlo Succi

Ontology Annotation for Software Engineering Project Management in Multi-site Distributed Software Development Environments
Pornpit Wongthongtham, Udsanee Pakdeetrakulwong, and Syed Hassan Marzooq

Investigating the Scope for Agile Project Management to be Adopted by Higher Education Institutions
Simon P Philbin

Software Project Management for Combined Software and Data Engineering
Seyyed M. Shah, James Welch, Jim Davies, and Jeremy Gibbons