Journal of Integrated Design and Process Science
Special issue on
INFORMATION PROCESSING IN SOFTWARE ENGINEERING: THEORIES,
METHODOLOGIES, AND PRACTICES
Corresponding Guest Editor
Zekai Demirezen, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
Geylani Kardas, Ege University, Turkey
Ilker Kocabas, Ege University, Turkey
Handling Co-Editor-in-Chief
Yong Zeng, Concordia University, Canada
The term Software Engineering was first coined in 1968 to emphasize the need for modern engineering techniques
and methods for software development. Tools and effective methods for the activities in software development
have been devised and led to a better understanding of software development process. However, today there is still
a need to improve our understanding about software development, especially in the area of software design.
Software Engineers have mostly applied ad-hoc, experience-based techniques to date. Most of these practices have
on the whole resulted in unreliable and costly products. Furthermore, because of hardware technology advances, the
size and quantity of software systems have greatly increased. Yet, our ability to reduce the unit software error rate
has not improved correspondingly. Recent observations conclude that the fundamental causes of software
development failures today are the same failures caused in traditional engineering fields of some 100 years ago.
For a long time, Software Engineering has served as a bridge between other disciplines and their information needs.
Its application domain has broadened and evolved day by day, and also the complexity of the engaged problems has
increased.
This special issue will introduce state-of-the-art and advanced techniques for developing software systems dealing
with generation, distribution, analysis and use of information. Recent progress, ideas, problems and solutions
relating to the information theoretical aspects of software engineering and its applications will be discussed,
providing developers with a guide for appropriate concepts of design and process in order to solve the problems on
designing and developing information systems.
The scope of the special issue is not only limited to the Information Engineering concerns- such as entity analysis,
Cluster Analysis, Data flow and Data Analysis, but also the areas focused on the presentation and understanding of
the high throughput data- such as artificial intelligence, data mining, information retrieval, and bioinformatics- will
be covered.
We are going to seek papers primarily in the domains of Health, Education & Defense. We also solicit high quality
full submissions in the following categories:
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original research contributions
application experience and case
surveys, comparisons, and state-of-the-art reports
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
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Software Development Processes
Natural Language Processing
Data Mining & Machine Learning
Information Retrieval
Information Security Technology and Theory
Design and Implementation of Information Systems
Software Methodological Issues (Model-driven development, Aspect-oriented development, Agent-based
development, etc.)
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Distributed / Grid / Ubiquitous Computing
Mobile and Pervasive Computing Systems
Bioinformatics and Biological Computation
Biology & Medical Information Process
Information Technology in Education
Information Technology in Defense
Timelines are as follows:
Deadline for initial submission: October 30, 2013
Time for the first decision: January 15, 2014
Deadline for submitting revisions: February 28, 2014
Second round review: April 15, 2014
Time for the final decision: May 31, 2014
Publication date: September, 2014
Submission instructions:
Authors are invited to submit original and unpublished papers. All prospective authors are invited to obtain early
feedback on possible submissions by e-mailing an abstract to the Guest Editors. All submissions will be peerreviewed and judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance, quality of presentation, and
relevance to the special issue topics of interest. Submitted papers to this special issue of JIDPS may not have
appeared in or be under consideration for another workshop, conference or a journal, nor may they be under review
or submitted to another forum during the review process. Papers of an appropriate standard not included in the
special issue may be considered for publication in a regular issue of JIDPS. Manuscripts should be submitted
through the journal editorial management system: https://jidps.rndsphere.com. Please choose SI-IPSE as the Article
Type. A paper template can be downloaded from the same website.
Guest Editors Full Contact
Zekai Demirezen
Department of Computer and Information Sciences
University of Alabama at Birmingham
115A Campbell Hall, 1300 University Boulevard
Birmingham, Alabama, 35294-1170, USA
[email protected]
Geylani Kardas
International Computer Institute
Ege University
35100 Bornova, Izmir, Turkey
[email protected]
Ilker Kocabas
International Computer Institute
Ege University
35100 Bornova, Izmir, Turkey
[email protected]