Call for papers, Special Issue for APSEC 2026

The Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC) is a premier regional forum that brings together researchers and practitioners from academia, industry, and government. The conference provides a platform to exchange knowledge, share best practices, and address emerging challenges and solutions in software engineering innovation.

This special issue aims to showcase the latest advances in the field, highlighting theoretical contributions, empirical studies, innovative applications, and industrial experiences. Of particular interest are works exploring the synergy between AI and software engineering: specifically, using AI techniques to enhance software development efficiency and applying software engineering principles to improve the quality of AI-based systems.

We invite high-quality contributions describing original research across the software engineering discipline. Solicited topics include, but are not limited to:

Tools and processes

  • Agile processes
  • DevOps and Container
  • Configuration Management and Deployment
  • Software Engineering Process and Standards

Requirements and Design

  • Service-oriented Computing
  • Component-based Software Engineering
  • Cooperative, Distributed, and Global Software Engineering
  • Software Architecture, Modeling and Design
  • Middleware, Frameworks, and APIs
  • Software Product-line Engineering

Testing and Analysis

  • Testing, Verification, and Validation
  • Program Analysis
  • Program Synthesis
  • Program Repairs

Formal Aspects of Software Engineering

  • Formal Methods
  • Model-driven and Domain-specific Engineering

Human Factors and Social Aspects of Software Engineering

  • Software Comprehension, Visualization, and Traceability
  • Software for Green and Sustainable Technologies

AI and Software Engineering

  • AI for Software Engineering
  • Software Engineering for AI
  • Search-based Software Engineering Dependability, Safety, and Reliability
  • Reliability, availability, and safety
  • Performance
  • Vulnerability detection to enhance software security

Software Maintenance and Evolution

  • Refactoring
  • Reverse Engineering
  • Software Reuse
  • Software Project Management
  • Debugging, Defect Prediction and Fault Localization

Software Repository Mining and Data Analytics

Deadline

Openning date for submissions: December 15, 2026

Submission Deadline: March 12, 2027

How to Submit

Please submit via Springer, link TBA.

Editors

Prof. In-Young Ko, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), South Korea (iko@kaist.ac.kr, https://webeng.kaist.ac.kr/professor/)

Prof. Bayu Priyambadha, University of Brawijaya, Indonesia (bayu_priyambadha@ub.ac.id, https://filkom.ub.ac.id/profile/dosen/bayu.priyambadha)