CFP: SEKE-2006

[C.Kloukinas]

Dear colleagues,
please consider submitting a paper to the 18th International
Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering
(SEKE'06) and the subsequent special issue of the International
Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering.
A PDF version of the CFP is available at the conference site for
your convenience.

We would be grateful to you if you could forward this to people
you feel may be interested in submitting/participating as well.

With kind regards,
Christos Kloukinas
SEKE'06 Publicity Chair
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| SEKE'2006 - 18th International Conference on |
| Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering |
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| http://www.ksi.edu/seke/seke06.html |
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|Hotel Sofitel, San Francisco Bay, July 5-7, 2006|
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| Paper submission deadline: March 1, 2006 |
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Organized by the Knowledge Systems Institute

SCOPE AND TOPICS
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The Eighteenth International Conference on Software Engineering and
Knowledge Engineering (SEKE'06) will be held in Hotel Sofitel, San
Francisco Bay, USA, July 5-7, 2006. 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. Solicited topics
include, but are not limited to:

* Adaptive Systems
* AI Approaches to Software Engineering
* Automated Reasoning
* Automated Software Design and Synthesis
* Automated Software Specification
* Component-Based Software Engineering
* Computer-Supported Cooperative Work
* Databases
* Design Methods
* Education and Training
* Electronic Commerce
* Formal Methods
* Human-Computer Interaction
* Industrial Applications
* Integrity, Security, and Fault Tolerance
* Knowledge Acquisition
* Knowledge-Based and Expert Systems
* Knowledge Representation and Retrieval
* Knowledge Engineering Tools and Techniques
* Knowledge Visualization
* Learning Software Organization
* Measurement and Empirical Software Engineering
* Meta-CASE
* Mobile Data Accesses
* Multimedia and Hypermedia Software Engineering
* Object-Oriented Technology
* Ontologies and Methodologies
* Patterns and Frameworks
* Process and Workflow Management
* Programming Languages and Software Engineering
* Program Understanding
* Reflection and Metadata Approaches
* Reliability
* Requirements Engineering
* Reverse Engineering
* Soft Computing
* Software Architecture
* Software Domain Modeling and Meta-Modeling
* Software Engineering Decision Support
* Software Maintenance and Evolution
* Software Process Modeling
* Software Quality
* Software Reuse
* System Applications and Experience
* Tutoring, Help, Documentation Systems
* Uncertainty Knowledge Management
* Validation and Verification
* Web-Based Knowledge Management
* Web-Based Tools, Systems, and Environments
* Web and Data Mining

PAPER SUBMISSION

Submissions that address research and development on the above and
other related topics are strongly encouraged. The scientific quality
of contributed papers will be ensured by a rigorous revision process
that will involve all members of the Program Committees.
A selection of the best papers in software engineering and knowledge
engineering will be published in a Special Issue of the
International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge
Engineering. 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:

http://conf.ksi.edu/seke06/submit/SubmitPaper.php
(Please use Internet Explorer as the browser)

Manuscript must include a 200-word abstract and no more than 6 pages
of IEEE double column text (include figures and references).
Workshop papers should be submitted to the workshops directly.

For any questions, please contact:

SEKE'2006 Conference Secretariat
Knowledge Systems Institute,
3420 Main Street, Skokie, IL 60076 USA
Tel: [phone], Fax: [phone]
E-mail: se**@ksi.edu
http://www.ksi.edu/seke/seke06.html
IMPORTANT DATES
===============

Paper submission: March 1, 2006
Notification of decision: April 15, 2006
Camera-ready copy: May 1, 2006

WORKSHOPS
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SEKE'2006 invites proposals for workshops in specialized topic
areas. Workshops proposed so far include the following. You can
contact the organizer of a workshop to join as a PC member for that
workshop.

* Knowledge Systems for Bio Applications
Workshop Chair: Christine W. Chan,
University of Regina (ch************@uregina.ca)

* Evaluation and Evolution of Component Composition
Workshop Chair: Jerry Gao,
San Jose State University (ga******@hotmail.com)

* Agent-Oriented Software Development Methodology
Workshop Chair: Hong Zhu,
Oxford Brookes University (hz**@brookes.ac.uk)

SPECIAL EVENTS
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Before the conference, there will be the July 4th celebration in San
Francisco and everywhere.

GENERAL CHAIR
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Shi Kuo Chang, Knowledge Systems Institute, USA

PROGRAM CHAIR
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Kang Zhang, University of Texas at Dallas, USA

PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS
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George Spanoudakis, City University, UK
Giuseppe Visaggio, University of Bari, Italy

PUBLICITY CHAIR
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Christos Kloukinas, City University, UK

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
=================

Silvia Teresita Acuna, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain
Anneliese Andrews University of Denver, USA
Juan Carlos Augusto University of Ulster, UK
Doo-Hwan Bae KAIST, Korea
Maria T. Baldassarre University of Bari, Italy
Luciano Barezi Politechnico di Milano, Italy
Alessandro Bianchi University of Bari, Italy
Danilo Caivano University of Bari, Italy
Gerardo Canfora University of Sannio, Italy
Joao W. Cangussu University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Giovanni Cantone University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy
Christine W. Chan University of Regina, Canada
W.K. Chan Hong Kong Univ of Science and Tech., China
Ned Chapin INforSci Inc, USA
William Chu Tung Hai University, Taiwan
Panos Constantopoulos Athens Univ of Economics & Business, Greece
Maria F. Costabile University of Bari, Italy
Kendra Cooper University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Jin Song Dong National University of Singapore, Singapore
Jing Dong University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Yi Deng Florida International University, USA
Carlo Ghezzi Politechnico di Milano Technical Univ, Italy
Holger Giese Universitaet Paderborn, Germany
Des Greer Queens University Belfast, UK
Paul Grunbacher Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
Peter In Korea University, Korea
Dehua Ju ASTI Shangai, China
Natalia Juristo Madrid Technological University, Spain
Gabor Karsai Vanderbilt University, USA
Huimin Lin Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Jian Lu Nanjing University, China
Zhongyu (Joan) Lu The University of Huddersfield, UK
Michael R. Lyu Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Neil Maiden City University, UK
Antonio Mana University of Malaga, Spain
Hong Mei Beijing University, China
Sandro Morasca Universita degli Studi dell'Insubria, Italy
Ana M. Moreno Technical University of Madrid, Spain
Elisabetta Di Nitto Politecnico de Milano, Italy
Mehmet Orgun Macquarie University, Australia
Massimiliano Di Penta Universiy of Sannio, Italy
Mario Piattini University Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
Guenther Ruhe University of Calgary, Canada
Walt Scacchi University of California Irvine, USA
Yidong Shen Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Nenad Stankovic Univ of Aizu, Japan
Kurt Stirewalt Michigan State University, USA
Giancarlo Succi University of Bolzano, Italy
Genny Tortora University of Salerno, Italy
Jeffrey Tsai University of California Irvine, USA
T. H. Tse University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Sira Vegas Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain
Guido Wirtz Bamberg University, Germany
Claes Wohlin Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden
Eric Wong University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Baowen Xu Southeast University, China
Hongji Yang De Montfort University, UK
Huiqun Yu East China Univ of Science and Tech., China
Du Zhang California State University, USA
Hong Zhu Oxford Brookes University, UK
Eugenio Zimeo Universiy of Sannio, Italy
Andrea Zisman City University, UK

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For further information, please visit the conference site:
http://www.ksi.edu/seke/seke06.html
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Computing Dep, City U., Northampton Square, London EC1V 0HB, U.K.
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