Call for papers, NIER@ASE Track in the Automated Software Engineering Journal, 2024

The Special Issue for the NIER@ASE Track in the Automated Software Engineering Journal aims to provide a platform for showcasing forward-looking, innovative research in software engineering. This special issue invites selected papers from the NIER track at the ASE conference to submit extended versions for publication. Authors are encouraged to submit papers that present significant, original, and unpublished results within these areas. Submissions will undergo a rigorous peer-review process to maintain the journal’s high standards. We invite researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to contribute their cutting-edge research and insights to this special issue.

Topics

The special issue welcomes submissions on a wide range of topics, including but not limited to:

  1. Requirements and Design:
    • Requirements elicitation and management
    • Traceability analysis
    • Architecture and design
    • Modeling and model-driven engineering
    • Software product lines
    • Component-based, service-oriented systems
    • Object-oriented/Aspect-oriented
  2. Testing and Analysis:
    • Regression, mutation, model-based testing
    • Program analysis
    • Program synthesis
    • Program repairs
  3. Tools and Processes:
    • Release engineering and DevOps
    • Configuration and release management
    • Agile processes
  4. Maintenance and Evolution:
    • Debugging and fault-localization
    • Refactoring and reengineering
    • Reverse engineering
    • Software reuse
    • API design and management
  5. Formal Aspects of Software Engineering:
    • Formal methods, validation, and verification
    • Programming languages
    • Specification languages, DSLs
  6. AI and Software Engineering:
    • Search-based software engineering
    • Recommender systems
    • Autonomous and self-adapting systems
    • AI for SE
    • SE for AI
  7. Software Analytics:
    • Mining software repositories
    • Apps and app store analysis
  8. Human Aspects of Software Engineering:
    • Program comprehension
    • Systematic reviews, code inspection
    • Human-computer interface
    • Software visualization
    • Crowd-based software engineering
    • Distributed and collaborative software engineering
  9. Social Aspects of Software Engineering:
    • Green and sustainable technologies
    • Software economics
    • Ethics in Software Engineering
  10. Dependability, Safety, and Reliability:
    • Privacy and security
    • Reliability
    • Safety
    • Performance

How to Submit

TBA

Deadline

Submission Deadline: Feb 2025

Editors

John Businge and Denys Poshyvanyk