The 27th International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering www.ksi.edu/seke/seke15.html (Alternate website: ksiresearchorg.ipage.com/seke/seke15.html) Wyndham Pittsburgh University Center, Pittsburgh, USA July 6 - July 8, 2015 Call for Papers The Twenty-Seventh International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE 2015) will be held at the Wyndham Pittsburgh University Center, Pittsburgh, USA, from July 6 to July 8, 2015. 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. Special issue of IJSEKE journal Around forty best ranked papers from the conference will be selected for a super-sized special issue of International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (IJSEKE) to be published in December 2015 for early dissemination. Workshops Intelligent Transportation Systems (Behrouz Far far@ucalgary.ca) Mobile Computing (Genny Tortora genny.tortora1@gmail.com) Software Assurance (Dianxiang Xu dianxiangxu@boisestate.edu) Test automation (Jerry Gao jerry.gao@sjsu.edu) Hotel Information The hotel has made available for these limited dates (7/5 - 7/9/2015) to SEKE 2015 attendees a discount rate of $119 US dollars per room, per night, single/double occupancy, not including sales tax. 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=seke2015. Manuscript must include a 200-word abstract and no more than 6 pages of double column text (include figures and references). All submissions must not be published or under consideration for publication in a journal or in a conference with proceedings. Papers will be evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness and clarify of exposition. Depending upon the results of evaluation a paper may be accepted as regular paper (6 pages), short paper (4 pages) or research notes (1 page, poster presentation and/or demo only). Contact Information SEKE2015 Conference Secretariat KSI Research 156 Park Square, Pittsburgh, PA 15238, USA E-mail: seke2015@easychair.org Important dates Paper submission due: March 22, 2015 (extended final hard deadline) Notification of acceptance: April 20, 2015 Revised paper for the proceedings: May 10, 2015 Early conference registration due: May 10, 2015 Conference Organization S. K. Chang, Univ. of Pittsburgh, USA, Steering Comm. Chair Marek Reformat, University of Alberta, Canada, General chair Haiping Xu, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, USA, PC chair Kehan Gao, Eastern Connecticut State University, USA, PC co-chair Shihong Huang, Florida Atlantic University, USA, PC co-chair Farshad Samimi, Enphase Energy, USA, Demo&Poster Chair Dragutin Petkovic, San Francisco State U., USA, Demo&Poster co-chair Xiaoying Bai, Tsinghua University, China, Publicity Chair Jun Suzuki, Univ. of Massachusetts Boston, USA, Publicity co-chair Hironori Washizaki, Waseda University, Japan, Asia Liaison Raul Garcia Castro, Univ.Politecnica de Madrid, Spain, Europe Liaison Swapan Bhattacharya, NIT Karnataka, Surathakl, India, India Liaison Jose Carlos Maldonado, ICMC-USP, Brazil, South America Liaison International Program Committee (www.ksi.edu/seke/seke15pc.html)