Egon Börger ist Professor für Informatik an der Universität Pisa (Italien) und Alexander-von-Humboldt-Forschungspreisträger.
Antonio Cisternino is a professor in the Computer Science Department of the University of Pisa. His primary research is on scientific computing, meta-programming and domain-specific languages on virtual-machine-based execution environments. He has been active in the .NET community since 2001 and developed VSLab, a Microsoft Visual Studio add-in to support MATLAB-like programming in F sharp and Visual Studio. He is also author of annotated C sharp an extension of C sharp, and Robotics4.NET, a framework for programming robots with Microsoft .NET. Cisternino holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Pisa.

This tutorial presents a collection of research papers on themes discussed at the Lipari Summer School on Advances in Software Engineering, held on Lipari Island, Italy, July 2007. It provides a state-of-the-art compendium of advances in software engineering.

Foundations and Methodology.- The Name and Nature of Software Engineering.- A Modeling Language for Program Design and Synthesis.- A Method for Verifiable and Validatable Business Process Modeling.- SOA and Web Services.- Service Oriented Architecture: Overview and Directions.- A Guided Tour through SAVVY-WS: A Methodology for Specifying and Validating Web Service Compositions.- Software Technology.- Software Manipulation with Annotations in Java.- Zero-Overhead Composable Aspects for .NET.- Technologies for Evolvable Software Products: The Conflict between Customizations and Evolution.- Security.- Security in Distributed Applications.

This tutorial presents a collection of research papers on themes discussed at the Lipari Summer School on Advances in Software Engineering, held on Lipari Island, Italy, in July 2007. It was the 19th in a well-known series of annual international schools, addressed at computer science researchers. The courses dealt with domain and requirements engineering, high-level modelling, software product line techniques, evolvable software, the evolution of service-oriented software architectures, Web services, and security in such evolving distributed systems.

The nine revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected by 21 reviewers. The papers are organized in topical sections on foundations and methodology, service oriented architecture and web services, software technology, and security. This book is written with the intent to produce a state-of-the-art compendium of recent advances in software engineering.