Software Engineering Methodologies

• Agent-based software engineering

• Artificial intelligence approaches to software engineering 

• Component-based software engineering

• Embedded and ubiquitous software engineering

• Aspect-based software engineering

• Empirical software engineering

• Search-Based Software engineering

• Automated software design and synthesis

• Automated software specification

• Computer-supported cooperative work

• Automated software specification

• Automated software design and synthesis

• Reverse engineering 

Software Engineering Techniques and Production Perspectives

• Requirements engineering 

• Software analysis, design and modeling

• Software maintenance and evolution

• Software engineering tools and environments

• Software engineering decision support

• Software design patterns

• Software product lines 

• Process and workflow management

• Reflection and metadata approaches

• Program understanding and system maintenance

• Software domain modeling and analysis

• Software economics

• Multimedia and hypermedia software engineering

• Software engineering case study and experience reports

• Enterprise software, middleware, and tools

Artificial Intelligence

• Artificial intelligent methods, models, techniques

• Artificial life and societies

• Swarm intelligence

• Smart Spaces

Autonomic computing and agent-based systems

• Autonomic computing

• Adaptive Systems 

• Agent architectures, ontologies, languages and protocols

• Multi-agent systems

• Agent-based learning and knowledge discovery

• Interface agents

• Agent-based auctions and marketplaces

• Secure mobile and multi-agent systems

• Mobile agents

SOA and Service-Oriented Systems

• Service-centric software engineering

• Service oriented requirements engineering

• Service oriented architectures

• Middleware for service based systems

• Service discovery and composition

• Service level agreements 

• (drafting, negotiation, monitoring and management)

• Runtime service management

• Semantic web

Data modeling, mining and data analytics

• Data modeling, aggregation, integration, and transformation

• Web and text mining

• Data mining methods, techniques, and tools 

• Data analytics modeling and algorithms

• Patterns and frameworks

• Data visualization

Knowledge systems and engineering

• Knowledge acquisition

• Knowledge-based and expert systems

• Knowledge representation and retrievals

• Knowledge engineering tools and techniques

• Time and knowledge management tools

• Knowledge modeling, integration, transformation, and management, 

• Uncertainty knowledge management

• Knowledge visualization

Mobile computing and mobile system engineering

• Mobile App design and development

• Innovative mobile applications

• Pervasive computing

• Mobile system validation and test automation

​Software & System Quality of Service

• Soft computing

• Software and system testing methods

• Quality assurance process, standards, and systems

• Software safety systems

• Software test automation and tools

• Software dependability, reliability, scalability

Software & System Security

• Software and system security and privacy

• Mobile app security and privacy

• Encryption methods and tools

• Security service systems

• Cloud, sensor cloud and mobile cloud security

• Mobile system integrity, security, and fault tolerance

Emergent Topics

• Cloud computing and Innovative cloud-based application systems

• Mobile cloud computing and application services

• Big data analytics application systems

• Innovative sensing cloud and systems

• Large-scale cyber systems

• IOT and smart city application systems

• Big data quality validation

• Big data application quality services

Smart learning and innovative education systems

• Learning software design engineering

• Smart learning methods and environments

• Online learning systems

• Mobile enabled learning systems and tools