Javier González-Huerta - Böcker

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 6th Conference on Information Technologies and Communication of Ecuador “TIC-EC”, held in Riobamba City from November 21 to 23, 2018, and organized by Universidad Nacional del Chimborazo (UNACH) and its Engineering School, and the Ecuadorian Corporation for the Development of Research and Academia (CEDIA).  Considered as one of the most important ICT conferences in Ecuador, it brought together international scholars and practitioners to discuss the development, issues and projections of the use of information and communication technologies in multiple fields of application.Presenting high-quality, peer-reviewed papers, the book discusses the following topics:•Communication networks•Software engineering•Computer sciences•Architecture•Intelligent territory management•IT management•Web technologies•ICT in education•Engineering, industry, and construction withICT support•Entrepreneurship and innovation at the Academy: a business perspectiveThe authors would like to express their sincere gratitude to the invited speakers for their inspirational talks, to the authors for submitting their work to this conference, and the reviewers for sharing their experience during the selection process.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement, PROFES 2024, held in Tartu, Estonia, during December 2–4, 2024.The 18 full papers, 12 short papers, 9 Industry papers, 2 Workshop papers, 2 Doctoral symposium papers, and one Keynote paper presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 85 submissions.The main theme of PROFES 2024 was professional software process improvement (SPI) motivated by product, process, and service quality needs. The technical program of PROFES 2024 was selected by a committee of leading experts in software process improvement, software process modeling, and empirical software engineering.