Special section on software clones

Special Section on Knowledge-Based Software Engineering

The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineering (IEICE) Transactions on Information and Systems announces a forthcoming special section on “Knowledge-Based Software Engineering” to be published in July 2018. The objective of this special section is to publish and overview recent progress in the interdisciplinary area of Artificial Intelligence and Software Engineering. B...

Special section on Software Verification and Testing

We are delighted to present this special section containing extended versions of selected papers from the Software Verification and Testing (SVT 2013) track at the 28th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (ACM SAC 2013), which took place in March 2013 in Coimbra, Portugal. The SVT track aims to bring together academic researchers and industry R&D expertise to discuss new results in formal verifi...

Special Section: Open Source Software

While many successful and well-known open source projects produce output of high quality, a general assessment of this development paradigm is still missing. In this paper, an online community of both small and large, successful and failed projects and their programmers is analysed mainly using the version-control data of each project, also according to their productivity and estimation of expe...

Guest Editorial: Special section on software engineering in industrial automation

A CCORDING to many undisputable evidences, the complexity and importance of software in industrial automation systems is growing with a tremendous rate, making software engineering one of the major activities of automation systems developers. In general, software engineering is an established discipline with its methods, traditions and curriculum. Most of its methods and tools are applicable ac...

Special section on Software Engineering for Secure Systems (SESS '07)