Section 1. Project management and cost estimation -- Chapter 1. Software project and quality modelling using Bayesian networks / Norman Fenton, Peter Hearty, Martin Neil, Lukasz Radlinski -- Chapter 2. Using Bayesian networks for web effort estimation / Emilia Mendes -- Chapter 3. Optimizing software development cost estimates using multi-objective particle swarm optimization / Tad Gonsalves, Kei Yamagishi, Ryo Kawabata, Kiyoshi Itoh -- Chapter 4. Auto-associative neural networks to improve the accuracy of estimation models / Salvatore A. Sarcia, Giovanni Cantone, Victor R. Basili --

Section 2. Requirements engineering and specification -- Chapter 5. From textual scenarios to message sequence charts / Leonid Kof -- Chapter 6. A Bayesian network for predicting the need for a requirements review / José del Sagrado Martínez, Isabel María del Águila Cano -- Chapter 7. Knowledge engineering support for software requirements, architectures and components / Muthu Ramachandran -- Chapter 8. MUSTER: a situational tool for requirements elicitation / Chad Coulin, Didar Zowghi, Abd-El-Kader Sahraoui --

Section 3. Software design and implementation -- Chapter 9. An intelligent computational argumentation system for supporting collaborative software development decision making / Xiaoqing (Frank) Liu, Ekta Khudkhudia, Lei Wen, Vamshi Sajja, Ming C. Leu -- Chapter 10. Supporting quality-driven software design through intelligent assistants / Alvaro Soria, J. Andres Diaz-Pace, Len Bass, Felix Bachmann, Marcelo Campo --

Section 4. Software testing and maintenance -- Chapter 11. Constraint-based techniques for software testing / Nikolai Kosmatov -- Chapter 12. Computational intelligence for functional testing / C. Peng Lam -- Chapter 13. Mining past-time temporal rules: a dynamic analysis approach / David Lo, Siau-Cheng Khoo, Chao Liu -- Chapter 14. Artificial intelligence in software engineering: current developments and future prospects / Farid Meziane, Sunil Vadera -- Compilation of references -- About the contributors -- Index.