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SCSE 2021

Soft Computing in Software Engineering

Special Session organized within
the 25th Panhellenic Conference on Informatics (PCI 2021)

November 26th to 28th, 2021 – Volos, Greece

(paper submission deadline update)

Special Session Organizer and Chair:
Vassilis C. Gerogiannis, Dept. of Digital Systems, University of Thessaly, Greece

PCI 2021 will be a hybrid conference. The ability to present a paper and/or attend the conference both physically and remotely will be provided. In case on-site presence is not allowed by the State for epidemiological reasons, the conference will be only held online.

Call for Papers

The field of Software Engineering is evolving rapidly, influenced by growing complexities, changing market conditions, technology advancements, and increasing software development challenges. The need to improve software development efficiency/effectiveness and address complex problems is present and probably most timely than ever. Soft Computing is a collection of computational techniques in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence whose role model is the human mind and its guiding principle is to exploit tolerance for imprecision, uncertainty, partial truth, and approximation aiming to achieve tractability, robustness, and low-cost solutions. The fundamental idea of Soft Computing is to emulate human-like reasoning, which seems a natural fit with Software Engineering, which is a human-based development activity. Soft Computing techniques include fuzzy sets and systems, probabilistic reasoning, support vector machines, belief networks, artificial neural networks, fuzzy cognitive maps as well as evolutionary computation based on genetic algorithms, swarm intelligence methods, and other nature-inspired computation paradigms. The aim of the special session on Soft Computing in Software Engineering (SCSE) in PCI 2021 is to highlight and demonstrate the utility of various Soft Computing methodologies on various software engineering problems.

Potential methods of Soft Computing related with the SCSE Special Session include (but not limited to):

Topics

  • Probabilistic Reasoning
  • Fuzzy Logic, Fuzzy Sets and Systems, Fuzzy Cognitive Maps, Fuzzy Decision Making and Fuzzy Optimization
  • Bayesian Belief Networks
  • Artificial Neural Networks
  • Support Vector Machines
  • Evolutionary Algorithms and Computation
  • Intelligent Software Agents
  • Genetic Algorithms
  • Swarm Intelligence

Related application areas of Soft Computing to Software Engineering include (but are not limited to):

  • Software Project and Process Management
  • Software Process Automation and Improvement
  • Requirements Engineering
  • Requirements Prioritization
  • Release Planning
  • Software Architectural Decisions
  • Software Architecture Design and Evaluation
  • Software Cost and Size Estimation
  • Software Reusability Prediction
  • Software Defect Prediction
  • Bug Triaging
  • Software Maintenance and Enhancement
  • Reliability and Quality Prediction
  • Testability Prediction
  • Risk Management
  • Software Engineering for Decision Support / Recommender Systems

SCSE 2021 Committee Members

  • George Kakarontzas, Department of Digital Systems, University of Thessaly, Greece (gkakaron at uth.gr)
  • Anthony Karageorgos, Department of Forestry, Wood Sciences and Design, University of Thessaly, Greece (karageorgos at uth.gr)
  • Elpiniki Papageorgiou, Energy Systems Department, University of Thessaly, Greece (elpinikipapageorgiou at uth.gr)
  • Fotios Kokkoras, Department of Digital Systems, University of Thessaly, Greece (fkokkoras at uth.gr)

Publication – Paper formatting – Submission

PCI 2021 proceedings will be published by ACM in the International Conference Proceedings Series (ICPS), ISBN: 978-1-4503-9555-7. Proceedings of PCI 2021 will include both main track papers and special session papers.

Papers should be at most 6 pages in length. SCSE papers must be submitted to the EasyChair submission platform following the same submission and formatting guidelines as all other PCI 2021 submissions. Please, make sure to select the category “Soft Computing in Software Engineering”.

Please, check the details regarding paper templates and formatting. Note that the “manuscript” option should be used for papers prepared with the LaTeX Master Article Template.

Deadlines

  • Full-length paper submission: October 7th 15th, 2021
  • Notification of decision: October 21st, 2021
  • Camera-ready: October 28th, 2021

Registration & Fees

Information regarding PCI 2021 Registration & Fees.