Novel Approaches and Technologies for Software Engineering and IT Management

Dear Colleagues,

Information and Communication Technologies have become key components of any enterprise organization, offering remarkable improvement in the productivity and efficiency of production operations. For this reason, novel approaches and technologies for software engineering and IT service management are emerging, in order to improve certain products and services. Therefore, organizations have recognized that software engineering and its applications through IT service management allow for increased productivity, lower costs, and improved end-user satisfaction by providing optimized solutions, since this is a field that is constantly evolving due to the new challenges.

We welcome high-quality submissions to this Special Issue, and are seeking research articles that include original and relevant contributions from academics and the industry, in order to cover diverse topics and report state-of-the art advances, case studies, approaches, techniques, and industry experience.

Dr. José Antonio Calvo-Manzano
Dr. Jezreel Mejía-Miranda
Dr. Giner Alor-Hernández
Guest Editors

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