SEKE 2008

The Twentieth International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE'08) will be held at Hotel Sofitel, Redwood City, California, USA, July 1-3, 2008.

The conference aims at bringing together experts in software engineering and knowledge engineering to discuss on relevant results in either software engineering or knowledge engineering or both. The main themes of the SEKE2008 conference are:
 * 1) sofware engineering
 * 2) knowledge engineering
 * 3) software engineering with computational intelligence and machine learning
 * 4) software test automation and practice
 * 5) model-based software engineering
 * 6) security technology and systems
 * 7) SOA-based system testing and maintenance
 * 8) Software Engineering of Autonomic Grid Computing Systems and Applications
 * 9) Industry applications and case studies

Papers on solicited topics and unsolicited topics are both welcome. =TOPICS=
 * Solicited topics include, but are not limited to:
 * Active rules in database systems
 * Agent architectures, ontologies, languages and protocols
 * Agent-based distributed data mining
 * Agent-based grid computing
 * Agent-based learning and knowledge discovery
 * Agent-based software engineering
 * Autonomic computing
 * Agent-based auctions and marketplaces
 * Agents in games and Virtual environments
 * Adaptive Systems
 * Ambient intelligence
 * Artificial Intelligence Approaches to Software Engineering
 * Artificial life and societies
 * Automated Reasoning
 * Automated Software Design and Synthesis
 * Automated Software Specification
 * Autonomic systems
 * Believable, embodied, and physical agents
 * Component-Based Software Engineering
 * Computer-Supported Cooperative Work
 * Data cleansing and noise reduction
 * Data streams and incremental mining
 * Data visualization
 * E-Commerce Solutions and Applications
 * Embedded and Ubiquitous Software Engineering
 * Electronic Commerce
 * Enterprise Software, Middleware, and Tools
 * Formal Methods
 * Human-Computer Interaction
 * Industry System Experience and Report
 * Integrity, Security, and Fault Tolerance
 * Interface agents
 * Knowledge Acquisition
 * Knowledge-Based and Expert Systems
 * Knowledge Representation and Retrieval
 * Knowledge Engineering Tools and Techniques
 * Knowledge Visualization
 * Learning Software Organization
 * Measurement and Empirical Software Engineering
 * Middleware for service based systems
 * Mining graphs
 * Mobile agents
 * Mobile Commerce Technology and Application Systems
 * Mobile Systems
 * Multi-agent systems
 * Multimedia Applications, Frameworks, and Systems
 * Multimedia and Hypermedia Software Engineering
 * Ontologies and Methodologies
 * Patterns and Frameworks
 * Pervasive Computing
 * Process and Workflow Management
 * Programming Languages and Software Engineering
 * Program Understanding
 * Quality of services
 * Reflection and Metadata Approaches
 * Reliability
 * Requirements Engineering
 * Reverse Engineering
 * Runtime service management
 * Secure mobile and multi-agent systems
 * Semantic web
 * Service-centric software engineering
 * Service oriented requirements engineering
 * Service oriented architectures
 * Service discovery and composition
 * Service level agreements (drafting, negotiation, monitoring and management)
 * Smart Spaces
 * Soft Computing
 * Soft Media/Digital Media
 * Software Architecture
 * Software Assurance
 * Software Domain Modeling and Meta-Modeling
 * Software dependability
 * Software economics
 * Software Engineering Case Study and Experience Reports
 * Software Engineering Decision Support
 * Software Engineering Tools and Environments
 * Software Maintenance and Evolution
 * Software Process Modeling
 * Software product lines
 * Software Quality
 * Software Reuse
 * Software Safety
 * Software Security
 * Swarm intelligence
 * System Applications and Experience
 * Time and Knowledge Management Tools
 * Tutoring, Documentation Systems
 * Uncertainty Knowledge Management
 * Validation and Verification
 * Web and text mining
 * Web-Based Tools, Applications and Environment
 * Web-Based Knowledge Management
 * Web-Based Tools, Systems, and Environments
 * Web and Data Mining
 * Wireless-Based Applications and Systems

WORKSHOPS

 * Workshop on Software Engineering with Computational Intelligence and Machine Learning (SECIML'08)

SPECIAL TRACKS

 * Software Test Automation and Practice
 * Model-based Software Engineering
 * Security Technology and Systems
 * SOA-based Software Testing and Maintenance
 * Software Engineering of Autonomic Grid Computing Systems and Applications
 * Service Level Negotiation and Agreement
 * Dynamic Service Composition �?? Semantics, Methods and Tools
 * Methods and Tools for Robust Services and Service Compositions
 * Business Models for Service-Oriented Architectures

Papers must be written in English. An electronic version (Postscript, PDF, or MS Word format) of the full paper should be submitted using the following URL: http://conf.ksi.edu/seke08/submit/SubmitPaper.php. Please use Internet Explorer as the browser. Manuscript must include a 200-word abstract and no more than 6 pages of IEEE double column text (include figures and references). Papers submitted to SEKE'08 will be reviewed electronically. The users (webmaster, program chair, reviewers...) can login using the following URL: http://conf.ksi.edu/seke08/review/pass.php.
 * INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS
 * INFORMATION FOR REVIEWERS

If you have any questions or run into problems, please send e-mail to: seke@ksi.edu. SEKE'2008 Conference Secretariat Knowledge Systems Institute 3420 Main Street Skokie, IL 60076 USA Tel: 847-679-3135 Fax: 847-679-3166 E-mail: seke@ksi.edu IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission due: March 1 Notification of acceptance: April 1 Camera-ready copy: May 1, 2008 This CfP was obtained from WikiCFP