This volume contains the proceedings of the fourth European Software
Engineering Conference. It contains 6 invited papers and 27 contributed
papers selected from more than 135 submissions. The volume has a
mixtureof themes. Some, such as software engineering and computer
supported collaborative work, are forward-looking and anticipate future
developments; others, such as systems engineering, are more concerned
with reports of practical industrial applications. Some topics, such as
software reuse, reflect the fact that some of the concerns first raised
in 1969 when software engineering was born remain unsolved problems. The
contributed papers are organized under the following headings:
requirements specification, environments, systems engineering,
distributed software engineering, real-time systems, software
engineering and computer supported collaborative work, software reuse,
software process, and formal aspects of software engineering.