Preface

It is our greatest honor to edit this special issue entitled ``Software Engineering for High-Confidence Systems'', for the Journal of Computer Science and Technology (JCST). Our main objective is to disseminate inspiring work that addresses the problem of developing and managing high-confidence systems. With the increasing use of software systems for enterprise, services and ubiquitous computing, software becomes complex and difficult to evolve. However, these systems need to be of high-confidence, demonstrating dependability, trust, security, and privacy if they are deployed to perform mission-critical tasks. The design and development of high-confidence software systems have drawn great research interest from the software engineering community.
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