This volume contains the proceedings of the fourth European
Software Engineering Conference. It contains 6 invited
papers and 27 contributed papers selected from more than 135
submissions.
The volume has a mixtureof themes. Some, such as software
engineering and computer supported collaborative work, are
forward-looking and anticipate future developments; others,
such as systems engineering, are more concerned with reports
of practical industrial applications. Some topics, such as
software reuse, reflect the fact that some of the concerns
first raised in 1969 when software engineering was born
remain unsolved problems.
The contributed papers are organized under the following
headings: requirements specification, environments, systems
engineering, distributed software engineering, real-time
systems, software engineering and computer supported
collaborative work, software reuse, software process, and
formal aspects of software engineering.