The Twentieth International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE'08) will be held at Hotel Sofitel, Redwood City, California, USA, July 1-3, 2008.

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. The main themes of the SEKE2008 conference are:
# sofware engineering
# knowledge engineering
# software engineering with computational intelligence and machine learning
# software test automation and practice
# model-based software engineering
# security technology and systems
# SOA-based system testing and maintenance
# Software Engineering of Autonomic Grid Computing Systems and Applications
# Industry applications and case studies

Papers on solicited topics and unsolicited topics are both welcome.
TOPICS
Solicited topics include, but are not limited to:
Active rules in database systems
Agent architectures, ontologies, languages and protocols
Agent-based distributed data mining
Agent-based grid computing
Agent-based learning and knowledge discovery
Agent-based software engineering
Autonomic computing
Agent-based auctions and marketplaces
Agents in games and Virtual environments
Adaptive Systems
Ambient intelligence
Artificial Intelligence Approaches to Software Engineering
Artificial life and societies
Automated Reasoning
Automated Software Design and Synthesis
Automated Software Specification
Autonomic systems
Believable, embodied, and physical agents
Component-Based Software Engineering
Computer-Supported Cooperative Work
Data cleansing and noise reduction
Data streams and incremental mining
Data visualization
E-Commerce Solutions and Applications
Embedded and Ubiquitous Software Engineering
Electronic Commerce
Enterprise Software, Middleware, and Tools
Formal Methods
Human-Computer Interaction
Industry System Experience and Report
Integrity, Security, and Fault Tolerance
Interface agents
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
Middleware for service based systems
Mining graphs
Mobile agents
Mobile Commerce Technology and Application Systems
Mobile Systems
Multi-agent systems
Multimedia Applications, Frameworks, and Systems
Multimedia and Hypermedia Software Engineering
Ontologies and Methodologies
Patterns and Frameworks
Pervasive Computing
Process and Workflow Management
Programming Languages and Software Engineering
Program Understanding
Quality of services
Reflection and Metadata Approaches
Reliability
Requirements Engineering
Reverse Engineering
Runtime service management
Secure mobile and multi-agent systems
Semantic web
Service-centric software engineering
Service oriented requirements engineering
Service oriented architectures
Service discovery and composition
Service level agreements (drafting, negotiation, monitoring and management)
Smart Spaces
Soft Computing
Soft Media/Digital Media
Software Architecture
Software Assurance
Software Domain Modeling and Meta-Modeling
Software dependability
Software economics
Software Engineering Case Study and Experience Reports
Software Engineering Decision Support
Software Engineering Tools and Environments
Software Maintenance and Evolution
Software Process Modeling
Software product lines
Software Quality
Software Reuse
Software Safety
Software Security
Swarm intelligence
System Applications and Experience
Time and Knowledge Management Tools
Tutoring, Documentation Systems
Uncertainty Knowledge Management
Validation and Verification
Web and text mining
Web-Based Tools, Applications and Environment
Web-Based Knowledge Management
Web-Based Tools, Systems, and Environments
Web and Data Mining
Wireless-Based Applications and Systems
WORKSHOPS
Workshop on Software Engineering with Computational Intelligence and Machine Learning (SECIML'08)
SPECIAL TRACKS
Software Test Automation and Practice

Model-based Software Engineering

Security Technology and Systems

SOA-based Software Testing and Maintenance

Software Engineering of Autonomic Grid Computing Systems and Applications

Service Level Negotiation and Agreement

Dynamic Service Composition �?? Semantics, Methods and Tools

Methods and Tools for Robust Services and Service Compositions

Business Models for Service-Oriented Architectures

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/seke08/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).
INFORMATION FOR REVIEWERS
Papers submitted to SEKE'08 will be reviewed electronically. The users (webmaster, program chair, reviewers...) can login using the following URL: http://conf.ksi.edu/seke08/review/pass.php.

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

SEKE'2008 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
IMPORTANT DATES
Paper submission due: March 1
Notification of acceptance: April 1
Camera-ready copy: May 1, 2008