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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-Iul-2010
  • Major Revisions Due: 15-Sept-2010
  • Re-reviews Completed: 15-Dec-2010
  • Minor Revision Due: 15-Ian-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 Ieff 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,
 Dr. Jeff Z. Pan,
Department of Computing Science,
University of Aberdeen, UK