Authors are especially encouraged to submit papers on the following topics, although papers on all aspects of software engineering are welcome:

    Software and systems requirements engineering
    Formal methods, design methods, practice and experience
    Software architecture, aspect and object orientation, reuse and re-engineering
    Testing, verification and validation techniques
    Software dependability and measurement
    Human systems engineering and human-computer interaction
    Knowledge engineering; expert and knowledge-based systems, intelligent agents
    Information systems engineering
    Application of software engineering in industry and commerce
    Software engineering technology transfer
    Management of software development
    Theoretical aspects of software development
    Machine learning
    Big data and big code
    Cloud computing