The conference is focused on, but not limited to the following areas: 
· Modeling and Simulation in Operations Management 
· Software application in Logistics and Supply Chain Management 
· Requirement engineering, especially for high-assurance system, and requirement elicitation 
· Software methodologies and tools for robust, reliable, non-fragile software design 
· Software development techniques for legacy systems 
· Automatic software generation versus reuse, and legacy systems, source code analysis and manipulation 
· Software quality and process assessment for business enterprise models 
· Intelligent software systems design, and software evolution techniques 
· Agile Software and Lean Methods 
· Software optimization and formal methods for software design 
· Static, dynamic analysis of software performance model, software maintenance, and program understanding and visualization 
· Software security tools and techniques, and related Software Engineering models 
· End-user programming environment, User-centered Adoption-Centric Reengineering techniques 
· Ontology engineering, semantic web 
· Software design through interaction, and precognitive software techniques for interactive software entertainment applications 
· Business oriented software application models 
· Software Engineering models, and formal techniques for software representation, software testing and validation 
· End-user programming environment, User-centered and Adoption-Centric models Reengineering techniques 
· Artificial Intelligence Techniques on Software Engineering, and Requirement Engineering 
· Object-oriented, aspect-oriented, component-based and generic programming, multi-agent technology 
· Creativity and art in software design principles 
· Axiomatic based principles on software design 
· Agile Software and Lean Methods 
· Model Driven Development (DVD), code centric to model centric software engineering 
· New aspects on digital libraries, collections and archives, Web publishing, and Knowledge-based engineering 
· Medical Informatics and bioinformatics, Software methods and application for biomedicine and bioinformatics 
· Emergency Management Informatics, software methods and application for supporting Civil Protection, First Response and Disaster Recovery 
· Other software engineering disciplines