[CFP] A Special Issue on Emerging Synergies of Artificial Intelligence and Software Engineering, IJSEKE

========= Call for Papers =========

A Special Issue on Emerging Synergies of Artificial Intelligence and Software Engineering
International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering

http://zimmer.csufresno.edu/~shliu/IJSEKE/


=== Theme ===
As software engineering is requested to answer dynamic, automated, adaptive, optimal and/or 
large-scale demands, other computer science disciplines come to play. Artificial Intelligence 
is one of them that may bring software engineering into further height. Conversely, software 
engineering techniques also play an important role to alleviate development cost and time of 
AI techniques as well as assist in introducing new AI techniques. Such mutually beneficial 
characteristics have appeared in the past few decades and still evolved due to new challenges. 
Several exemplified challenges include, but not limited to, how machine learning addresses 
software optimization problems derived from  new software approaches (e.g., model-driven 
engineering, service-oriented computing, and cloud computing); and conversely how these new 
software approaches may help develop artificial intelligence-related software environments.

A special issue on Emerging Synergies of Artificial Intelligence and Software Engineering of 
the International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering will devote to the 
latest innovative “synergistic” AI and software engineering techniques/practices to the 
aforementioned challenges. Namely, we are interested in new and novel AI solutions to software 
engineering challenges, software engineering practices to answer AI obstacles, and techniques 
that could benefit these realms bi-directionally. 

The special issue seeks high-quality original and unpublished papers in the following topics 
including but not limited to these topics:
* AI techniques for optimization, transformation, and configuration management 
* AI techniques for software reuse, evolution, maintenance and refactoring
* AI techniques for ontology and other semantic aspects in software engineering
* AI techniques for business process management and business rules
* AI techniques for reverse engineering and program understanding
* AI techniques for aspect mining and pattern mining
* AI techniques for testing and quality assurance 
* AI techniques for performance engineering (e.g., performance approximation, monitoring, and adaptation) 
* AI techniques for software specification, design, integration and requirement engineering
* AI techniques for software analysis and validation 
* AI techniques for cost analysis and risk assessment in software projects 
* Agent-based software engineering 
* Visual modeling and model-driven development for AI techniques
* Domain modeling and software language engineering (e.g., domain-specific languages) for AI techniques
* Service-oriented computing and Cloud computing for AI-based techniques/software
* Object-oriented and aspect-oriented frameworks to implement and evaluate AI techniques
* Formal methods for AI techniques
* Rapid prototyping and scripting for AI techniques 
* Software for knowledge acquisition and representation
* Software metrics applied to AI techniques
* Search engines in AI 
* User interfaces for AI techniques

AI techniques of interest include (but are not limited to):
* Machine Learning (unsupervised and supervised learning), Evolutionary Algorithms (e.g. GA, GP, ES), 
Swarm Intelligence, Simulated Annealing, Tabu Search, Probabilistic Reasoning, Fuzzy Logic, Neural 
Networks, Petri Nets, Data Mining, Game Theory, Time Series Analysis, Logic and reasoning, Knowledge 
representation, AI planning, among others.

=== Important Dates ===
Paper submission due: February 15, 2011
Notification due: June 1, 2011
Revised paper submission due: August 15, 2011
Final notification: September 30, 2011
Camera-version due: October 15, 2011
Tentative publication date: February, 2012

=== Paper Preparation/Submission Guidelines ===
Paper preparation/submission instructions can be found at http://www.worldscinet.com/ijseke. 

=== Contacts ===
* Jun Suzuki, University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA (jxs (at) cs (dot) umb (dot) edu)
* Shih-Hsi “Alex” Liu, California State University, Fresno, USA (shliu (at) csufresno (dot) edu)
* Marjan Mernik, University of Maribor, Slovenia (marjan (dot) mernik (at) uni-mb (dot) si)

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