CFP: Semantics-enabled Software Engineering IEEE TSMC-C

Subject:	CFP: Semantics-enabled Software Engineering IEEE TSMC-C
Date:	Mon, 01 Feb 2010 00:48:50 GMT

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics Part C -
Applications and Reviews

Special issue on Semantics-enabled Software Engineering

SCOPE - With the prevalence of semantic technologies and the emergence
of a
networked environment on the Web, which is becoming a focal center of
attention for knowledge sharing and process execution, software
research and
practice would need to move towards adaptability with these emerging
technologies. Semantic technologies can play a major role in enhancing
the
reusability and extensibility of software systems, supporting
improvements
in quality assurance and measurement, speeding software development
through
semantic-aware component-based systems and commercially off the shelf
products (COTS), and many other areas. Software engineering research
can
hence highly benefit from semantic techniques. We solicit high-quality
contributions with consolidated and thoroughly evaluated application-
oriented research results or review articles in the area of
semantic enabled software.

SUGGESTED TOPICS:

* Visions for semantic-based software development
* Integration of software and Semantic Web languages
* Integration of formal methods and Semantic Web languages
* Software specification and Semantic Web languages
* Component discovery and ontologies
* Feature modeling and ontologies
* Ontology reasoning for software engineering
* Semantic annotations in software engineering
* Semantic Web-based knowledge management for software engineering
* Ontology-driven software architectures
* Semantic technologies in software maintenance tools
* Semantic business process modeling
* Semantic Web and software architectures

TIMELINE:

* Submission Deadline: 1-May-2010
* Reviews Completed: 31-Jul-2010
* Major Revisions Due: 15-Sept-2010
* Re-reviews Completed: 15-Dec-2010
* Minor Revision Due: 15-Jan-2011
* Final recommendations: 15-Feb-11
* Final Manuscripts Due: 10-Mar-11

PAPER SUBMISSION DETAILS - Authors are invited to submit original
research
contributions in PDF format to http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/smcc-ieee.
Authors should state in their cover letter to the EiC that "This
manuscript
is submitted for the special issue on Semantics-enabled Software
Engineering
(Editors: Ebrahim Bagheri, Dragan Gasevic, and Jeff Z. Pan)".
Submission
instructions can be found under "Information for Authors" at
http://www.ieee-smc.org/publications/index.html

GUEST EDITORS (alphabetical order):

Dr. Ebrahim Bagheri,
Institute for Information Technology,
National Research Council Canada

Dr. Dragan Gasevic,
School of Computing and Information Systems,
Athabasca University, Canada

Dr. Jeff Z. Pan,
Department of Computing Science,
University of Aberdeen, UK

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