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        <kwd>Tsuyoshi Nakajima and</kwd>
        <kwd>Toshihiro Komiyama</kwd>
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      <p>This volume contains the papers presented at IWESQ 2022: 4th International
Workshop on Experience with SQuaRE series and its Future Direction held on
December 6, 2022 in Tokyo (actually held online for the situation of COVID-19).</p>
      <p>There were 8 submissions. Each submission was reviewed by three program
committee members. The committee decided to accept 7 papers (including three
short papers). Its acceptance rate is 87.5%. The program includes one invited
talk.</p>
      <p>The ISO/IEC 25000 (Systems and Software Quality Requirements and
Evaluation: SQuaRE) series is a set of international standards for systems and
software, data and IT service quality, which has been widely used for a couple of
decades. In the research field, it have been also examined as a tool for performing
various analyses and evaluations on systems and software quality.</p>
      <p>The 4th International Workshop on Experience with SQuaRE series and its
Future Direction (IWESQ 2022) aims at sharing such research outcomes and
issues, and experience of practical applications of the SQuaRE series, in order
to promote much more fruitful research and practice for quality systems and
software products.</p>
      <p>Furthermore, we gratefully acknowledge the professional work of the
international program committee members, who have contributed substantially with
their highly qualified referee reports.</p>
      <p>In addition, we owe great thanks to the APSEC conference organization
members for their dedication and professionalism in taking care of the many
aspects of conference management.</p>
      <p>Moreover, we would like to thank the developers and other professional staff
of EasyChair.org, who made it possible for us to use the resources of this
excellent and comprehensive conference management system, from the call of papers
and inviting reviewers, to handling paper submissions, communicating with the
authors, and creating the online volume of the conference proceedings.</p>
      <p>We also want to thank all presenters and attendees for actively contributing
to the success of IWESQ 2022. We are looking forward to excellent
presentations and fruitful discussions, which will broaden our professional horizons. All
participants are invited to make new friends within the community of SQuaRE
users.
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      <title>Tsuyoshi Nakajima</title>
      <p>Toshihiro Komiyama
Alessandro Simonetta
Andrea Trenta
Domenico Natale
Rau´l Mart´ınez
Hyunchong Kim
Lizhi Cai
Yangyang Zhang
Bill Curtis
Shinichi Fukuzumi
Noriko Wada
Yukio Tanitsu
Maria Cristina</p>
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      <title>Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan NEC Corporation, Japan University of Rome, Italy TIM, Italy</title>
      <p>AgID, Italy
IRAM, Argentina
TTA, South Korea
CESI, China
China Electronics Standardization Institute, China
CAST Research Lab., USA
RIKEN, Japan
Yamanashi Eiwa college, Japan
ITSCJ, Japan
Inail, Italy</p>
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