The 5th Asian Workshop on Advanced Software Engineering (AWASE 2016) was successfully held in Todaiji, one of the most famous temples in Japan and a landmark of Nara, on 19-20 March 2016.

The workshop series are jointly initiated by Institute of Software at Peking University (PKU-SEI), China and National Institute of Informatics (NII), Japan, and aims at providing a forum for researchers and educators to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, advances, experience and concerns in the generative approach to software development, as well as to promote the interaction between participators.

This time the workshop attracted more than 50 participants from UK, Italy, Singapore, Japan and China, and more than 30 gave presentations, and two keynote speeches are given by Prof. Carlo Ghezzi from Politecnico di Milano, Italy and Prof. Kevin Ryan from University of Limerick, Ireland, respectively.

Prof. Zhi Jin, Haiyan Zhao, Minghui Zhou, and Dan Hao from our Institute attended this workshop.