Empirical Software Engineering

• Empirical Methods.

• Statistical Methods and Measurement.

• Simulation Methods.

• Missing Data in Software Engineering.

• Experimentation in Software Engineering.

• Human Factors in Software Engineering.

Trends In Software Engineering

• Construction of complex systems: recommendation systems.

• Software Engineering for very small mobile software applications and context, and very large software ecosystems.

• Modelling and knowledge management.

• Support methodologies: agents-based methodologies, natural language processing, machine learning.

• Software Engineering for Cloud Computing, Big Data, Social Computing.

Interaction With Other Disciplines

• User-centered design: human-computer interaction, usability engineering.

• Social Issues in software engineering: psychology, sociology.

Formal Methods

• Theoretical basis for software engineering.

• Formal methods for software engineering.

• Experimental evaluation and validation.

• The split between industry practice and academic research.