The 6^th ACIS International Conference on Software Engineering, Research, Management and Applications (SERA 2008) was held in Prague in the Czech Republic on August 20 ¿ 22. SERA ¿08 featured excellent theoretical and practical contributions in the areas of formal methods and tools, requirements engineering, software process models, communication systems and networks, software quality and evaluation, software engineering, networks and mobile computing, parallel/distributed computing, software testing, reuse and metrics, database retrieval, computer security, software architectures and modeling. Our conference officers selected the best 17 papers from those papers accepted for presentation at the conference in order to publish them in this volume. The papers were chosen based on review scores submitted by members or the program committee, and underwent further rounds of rigorous review.

A Variability Management Strategy for Software Product Lines of Brazilian Satellite Launcher Vehicles.- Use of Questionnaire-Based Appraisal to Improve the Software Acquisition Process in Small and Medium Enterprises.- Deploying Component¿Based Applications: Tools and Techniques.- Towards Improving End-to-End Performance of Distributed Real-Time and Embedded Systems Using Baseline Profiles.- Preserving Intentions in SOA Business Process Development.- Quality Aware Flattening for Hierarchical Software Architecture Models.- Case Study on Symbian OS Programming Practices in a Middleware Project.- Automatic Extraction of Pre- and Postconditions from Z Specifications.- Towards a SPEM v2.0 Extension to Define Process Lines Variability Mechanisms.- Genetic Algorithm and Variable Neighborhood Search for Point to Multipoint Routing Problem.- Observation-Based Interaction and Concurrent Aspect-Oriented Programming.- Modular Compilation of a Synchronous Language.- Describing Active Services for Publication and Discovery.- Refactoring-Based Adaptation of Adaptation Specifications.- Resolving Complexity and Interdependence in Software Project Management Antipatterns Using the Dependency Structure Matrix.- An Embedded System Curriculum for Undergraduate Software Engineering Program.- Model Checking for UML Use Cases.