This book presentshigh-quality original contributions on new software engineering models
approaches methods and tools and their evaluation in the context of defenceand security
applications. In addition important business and economic aspectsare discussed with a
particular focus on cost benefit analysis new businessmodels organizational evolution and
business intelligence systems. Thecontents are based on presentations delivered at SEDA 2015
the 4thInternational Conference in Software Engineering for Defence Applications which was held
in Rome Italy in May 2015. This conference series represents atargeted response to the
growing need for research that reports and debates thepractical implications of software
engineering within the defence environmentand also for software performance evaluation in real
settings throughcontrolled experiments as well as case and field studies. The book will
appealto all with an interest in modeling managing and implementing defence-relatedsoftware
development products and processes in a structured and supportable way.
