36th Annual IEEE Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC 2012) [Cover]

The following topics are dealt with: software life cycle, evolution and maintenance; reliability, metrics and fault tolerance; software testing; trustworthiness of open source, open data, open systems and open standards; software architecture and design; security; software testing, software quality and trust in software-based systems; requirements engineering; creative computing: reconciling objective precision with subjective ambiguity; formal method; cloud computing; Web-based system; a perspective of software trustworthiness based on finance industry; smart and semantic computing; HCI and usability; cloud computing for developing countries; mobile and pervasive computing; and real-time and embedded systems.