The International Conference on Software Engineering Research, Management and Applications (SERA2018) brings together researchers, practitioners, and advanced graduate students to exchange and share their experiences, new ideas, and research results and research-in-progress about all aspects (theory, applications and tools) of Software Engineering Research, Management and Applications, and discuss the practical challenges encountered and the solutions adopted. The conference will cover a broad set of research topics as:

Software Agent Technology

Middleware Design Techniques

Reliability Modeling and Analysis

Case Studies

Modeling with UML

Cost Modeling and Analysis

Component-Based Software Engineering

Mobile/Wireless Computing

Computer & Software Engineering

Communication Systems and Networks

Parallel and Distributed Computing

Technology Transfer

Data Mining and Knowledge Recovery

Safety and Security Critical Software

Business Process Reengineering & Science

Artificial Intelligence

Reengineering, Reverse Engineering

Design & Process Engineering & Science

Design Patterns and Frameworks

Software Evolution and Understanding

Process Management & Improvement

Software Architecture

Software Testing Techniques

Software Engineering Education

Economic and Financial Systems

Software Reuse and Metrics

Healthcare Engineering

Requirements Engineering

Object-Oriented Technology

Software Process Models