CALL FOR PAPERS

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.

TOPICS

Solicited topics include, but are not limited to:
Adaptive Systems
Artificial Intelligence 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
Embedded and Ubiquitous Software Engineering
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
Soft Media/Digital Media
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
Time and Knowledge Management
Tools
Tutoring, Help, Documentation Systems
Uncertainty Knowledge Management
Validation and Verification
Web-Based Knowledge Management
Web-Based Tools, Systems, and Environments
Web and Data Mining

WORKSHOPS

Workshop on Applicatins of Artificial Intelligence in Energy Production and Environmental Systems Engineering (AAIEPESE2006) 
Contact: Dr. Christine W. Chan
Professor, Software Systems Engineering
Faculty of Engineering
University of Regina
Regina, Saskatchewan, S4S 0A2, CANADA
Tel: (306) 585-5225  Fax: (306) 585-4855
E-mail: christine.chan@uregina.ca
Workshop on Evaluation and Evolution of Component Composition (EECC2006) at http://www.engr.sjsu.edu/conferences/eecc06 
Contact: Jerry Gao, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Computer Engineering Department
San Jose State University
San Jose, Ca 95192-0180
Phone: 408-924-3904(o)
Fax: 408-924-4153(o)
E-mail: gaojerry@hotmail.com
Workshop on Agent-Oriented Software Development Methodology (AOSD2006) at http://www.ksi.edu/seke/sk06WSzhu.htm 
Contact: Hong Zhu, Professor of Computer Science
Department of Computing, Oxford Brookes University
Wheatley Campus, Oxford OX33 1HX, UK
Tel: ++44 1865 484580, Fax.: +44 1865 484545
Email: hzhu@brookes.ac.uk

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: 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.

INFORMATION FOR REVIEWERS

Papers submitted to SEKE'06 will be reviewed electronically. The users (webmaster, program chair, reviewers...) can login using the following URL: http://conf.ksi.edu/seke06/review/pass.php.

If you have any questions or run into problems, please send e-mail to: seke@ksi.edu.

SEKE'2006 Conference Secretariat
Knowledge Systems Institute
3420 Main Street
Skokie, IL 60076 USA
Tel: 847-679-3135
Fax: 847-679-3166
E-mail: seke@ksi.edu

SPECIAL EVENTS

The day before the conference, there will be the July 4th celebration in San Francisco and everywhere.

IMPORTANT DATES

March 15, 2006 Paper submission due (extended)
Notification of acceptance: April 15, 2006
Camera-ready copy: May 10, 2006