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Paper submission due: Midnight EST, March 17, 2016 (extended final hard deadline)
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The 28th International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering
ksiresearchorg.ipage.com/seke/seke16.html
Hotel Sofitel, Redwood City, San Francisco Bay, USA
July 1 - July 3, 2016


Call for Papers

The Twenty-Eight International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge
Engineering (SEKE 2016) will be held at the Hotel Sofitel, Redwood City, California, USA, from
July 1 to July 3, 2016. 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. Special
emphasis will be put on the transference of methods between both domains.
The theme this year is big data and software engineering & knowledge engineering.

Special issue of IJSEKE journal

Best ranked papers from the conference will be
selected for a special issue of International Journal of
Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (IJSEKE)
to be published in December 2016 for early dissemination.

Topics include but are not limited to:

- Software Engineering Methodologies
- Software Engineering Techniques and Production Perspectives
- Artificial Intelligence
- Autonomic computing and agent-based systems
- SOA and Service-Oriented Systems
- Data modeling, mining and data analytics
- Knowledge systems and engineering
- Mobile computing and mobile system engineering
- Software & System Quality of Service
- Software & System Security
- Emergent Topics
- Smart learning and innovative education systems

Workshops and Special Session
o Workshop on Big Data R&D in Knowledge Engineering
o Workshop on Testing and Quality Assurance and Services for Big Data and Application Systems
o Special Session on Transportation System Research and Development in Knowledge Engineering

Hotel Information

The hotel has made available for these limited dates (7/1 - 7/4/2016) to SEKE
2016 attendees a discount rate of $109 US dollars per room,
per night, single/double occupancy, not including sales tax.
For 6/30 the discount rate will be $149 dollars per room per night.
To register at the discounted rate please follow the link:
http://tinyurl.com/p4k22em
or call +1-650-598-9000 fax +1-650-598-9383.
Hotel Sofitel provides free shuttle service between San Francesco International Airport and hotel.

Information for authors

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:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=seke2016. Manuscript must include
a 200-word abstract and no more than 6 pages of double column text
(include figures and references). All submissions must not be published or under
consideration for publication in a journal or in a conference with proceedings.
Papers will be evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness
and clarify of exposition. Depending upon the results of evaluation a paper may be
accepted as regular paper (6 pages), short paper (4 pages) or research notes (1 page,
poster presentation and/or demo only).

Contact Information

SEKE2016 Conference Secretariat
KSI Research
156 Park Square, Pittsburgh, PA 15238, USA
E-mail: seke2016@easychair.org

Important dates

Paper submission due (final hard deadline): March 17, 2016
Notification of acceptance: April 20, 2016
Revised paper for the proceedings: May 20, 2016
Early conference registration due: May 20, 2016

Conference Organization

S. K. Chang, Univ. of Pittsburgh, USA, Steering Comm. Chair
Haiping Xu, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, USA, General Chair
Jerry Gao, San Jose Statem University, USA, PC Chair
Shihong Huang, Florida Atlantic University, USA, PC co-chair
Hironori Washizaki, Waseda University, Japan, Asia Liaison
Raul Garcia Castro, Univ.Politecnica de Madrid, Spain, Europe Liaison
Swapan Bhattacharya, NIT Karnataka, Surathakl, India, India Liaison
Jose Carlos Maldonado, ICMC-USP, Brazil, South America Liaison
Guowei Yang, Texas State University, USA, Poster/Demo Chair
Robert Heinrich, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany, Publicity Chair

International Program Committee (ksiresearchorg.ipage.com/seke/seke16pc.html)

SEKE2016 is index by:
DBLP, SCOPUS, Compendex, INSPEC and Library of Congress