Simone Romano - Böcker

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement, PROFES 2025, held in Salerno, Italy, during December 1–3, 2025.The 23 full research papers and 20 short research papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 101 submissions. PROFES 2025 focuses on professional Software Process Improvement (SPI) motivated by product, process, and service quality needs. The technical program was curated by a committee of distinguished experts in software process improvement, software process modeling, and empirical software engineering.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement, PROFES 2025, held in Salerno, Italy, during December 1–3, 2025.The 9 Industry papers, 19 Workshop papers, 1 Doctoral symposium paper and 1 Tutorial paper presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 101 submissions. The contributions were organized in topical sections as follows: Industry papers; Doctoral symposium papers; Tutorial papers; First International Workshop on Analytics for Software Product and Process Improvement (A-SPPI 2025); First International Workshop on Promoting and Dealing with Advanced Technology in Healthcare (PATH 2025); and First International Workshop on Quality Evaluation of ML-based Software Systems (QUEMALES 2025).

Tech giants entering the banking and financial industry is not an issue of the future, it is already happening. This phenomenon has crucial implications that extend well beyond the banking system. There are questions like: Will tech giants be competitors of incumbents or will they rather partner up? How is the financial regulation going to handle this radical change, and will it succeed in creating a level playing field? What are the implications from a political and social point of view? Will tech giants acquire too much bargaining power in dealing with sovereign states, allowing them to shift political decisions and laws in their favour? This edited book provides a number of answers to these questions through a research effort on the economic and political implications of this technological revolution. While it is impossible to stop this revolution, it poses the challenge of steering towards a sustainable and inclusive improvement of our society and economy.