CALL FOR PAPERS

The Thirtieth International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE 2018)
in memory of Professor Lofti Zadeh
will be held at Hotel Pullman, Redwood City, San Francisco Bay, USA, from
July 1 to July 3, 2018.

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. The theme this year is soft computing in software engineering & knowledge engineering.
Submission of papers and demos are both welcome.

CONFERENCE WEBSITE: ksiresearchorg.ipage.com/seke/seke18.html

SPECIAL ISSUE OF IJSEKE JOURNAL:
The best ranked papers from the conference will be selected for
a special issue of the International Journal of Software
Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (IJSEKE) to be published in
December 2018 for early dissemination. This special issue will
be dedicated in memory of Professor Lofti Zadeh, a great thinker,
pioneer and researcher in software computing.


SPECIAL SESSIONS:
Special Session on Big Data Research and Development in Knowledge Engineering (BDKE) (xuzheng@shu.edu.cn)

Special Session on Conceptual Lattices for Software Systems Engineering (LATTICE) (iaakov@jce.ac.il)

Special Session on Data Intensive Services based Application (DISA) (gaohonghao@shu.edu.cn)

Special Session on Semantic Enabled Software Engineering (SEKE) (j.sun@cs.auckland.ac.nz)


CO-LOCATED CONFERENCE:
The Int'l DMS Conference on 
Visualization and Visual Languages DMSVIVA2018
(ksiresearchorg.ipage.com/seke/dmsviva18.html)
will be held at the same hotel from
June 29 to 30, 2018.  Authors are welcome to
contribute papers and attend both conferences.

CONFERENCE HOTEL:
The hotel has made available for these limited dates (6/29 - 7/3/2018) 
to SEKE2018/DMSVIVA2018 attendees a discount rate of $109 US dollars  per room, per night, single/double occupancy,
including free WiFi in hotel room and discounted parking, not including sales tax. 
For other days prior to or after the conference period, the hotel will provide best available rate.

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:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=seke2018
(submission website will be open after January 1, 2018).
Manuscript must include a 200-word abstract and no more than 6 pages of double column formatted 
manuscript for conference proceedings (include figures and references but exclude copyright form).

If you have any questions or run into problems, please send e-mail to: seke2018@easychair.org.

SEKE 2018 Conference Secretariat:
KSI Research Inc.
156 Park Square
Pittsburgh, PA 15238 USA
E-mail: seke2018@easychair.org

IMPORTANT DATES:
Paper submission due:  March 14, 2018 (extended final hard deadline)
Notification of acceptance: April 20, 2018
Early registration deadline: May 10, 2018
Camera-ready copy: May 10, 2018

SPONSORED BY:
KSI Research Inc., USA

CONFERENCE LISTED/INDEXED BY:
DBLP
SCOPUS
INSPEC
Compendex
Library of Congress

ISSN for SEKE series:  2325-9000 (print)
ISSN for SEKE series:  2325-9086 (online)