SEKE2016 Submission Deadline is extended to March 17, 2016 ========================================================== 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