Advances in Software Maintenance Management: Technologies and Solutions: Technologies and Solutions

Mario Piattini has an MSc and a PhD in computer science (Politechnical University of Madrid) and a MSc in Psychology (UNED). He is also a certified information system auditor and a certified information system manager by ISACA (Information System Audit and Control Association) as well as a full professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Castilla-La Mancha (Ciudad Real, Spain). Furthermore, he is the author of several books and papers on databases, software engineering, and information systems. He is a co-editor of several international books including Advanced Databases Technology and Design (2000, Artech House, UK), Information and database quality (2002, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Norwell, USA), Component-based software quality: methods and techniques (2004, Springer, Germany), and Conceptual Software Metrics (Imperial College Press, UK, 2005). He leads the ALARCOS research group of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Castilla-La Mancha (Ciudad Real, Spain). His research interests include advanced databases, database quality, software metrics, security and audit, and software maintenance.

Macario Polo is full-time professor at the Department of Computer Science in the University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain. He has a PhD (University of Castilla-La Mancha) and a MSc. (University of Seville), both in Computer Science.

Francisco Ruiz is full time professor of the Department of Computer Science at University of Castilla-La Mancha (UCLM) in Ciudad Real, Spain. He had been Dean of the Faculty of Computer Science seven years until February 2000. [Editor]