Includes bibliographical references and index.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the Second International Conference on Software Engineering Research and Applications, SERA 2004, held in Los Angeles, CA, USA in May 2004. The 18 revised full papers presented together with 4 keynote addresses were carefully selected from 103 initial submissions during two rounds of reviewing and improvement. The papers are organized in topical sections on formal methods and tools; requirements engineering and reengineering; component-based software engineering, software process models, management and improvement; information engineering, Web engineering and Web-based applications; parallel and distributed computing; software reuse and metrics; object-oriented technology and information technology, and communications systems and networks.