Topics
Software engineering is concerned with the analysis, design, implementation, testing, and maintenance of large software systems. Automated software engineering focuses on how to automate or partially automate these tasks to achieve significant improvements in quality and productivity. ASE 2008 encourages contributions describing basic research, novel applications, and experience reports. In all cases, papers should carefully articulate the relevance of their contributions to the automation of software engineering tasks. Solicited topics include, but are not limited to:
- Automated reasoning techniques
- Component-based systems
- Computer-supported cooperative work
- Configuration management
- Domain modelling and meta-modelling
- Empirical software engineering
- Human-computer interaction
- Knowledge acquisition and management
- Maintenance and evolution
- Model-based software development
- Model-driven engineering and model transformation
- Modelling language semantics
- Ontologies and methodologies
- Open systems development
- Product line architectures
- Program understanding
- Program synthesis
- Program transformation
- Re-engineering
- Requirements engineering
- Specification languages
- Software architecture and design
- Software visualization
- Testing, verification, and validation
- Tutoring, help, and documentation systems
ACM Press will publish accepted papers in the conference proceedings. In addition authors of selected papers will be invited to revise and re-submit extended versions of their conference papers for consideration for a special issue of the Journal of Automated Software Engineering, published by Springer.