TOPICS of SOMET include, but no limited:
-Requirement engineering, especially for high‐assurance system, and requirement elicitation.
-Software methodologies, and tools for robust, reliable, non-fragile software design
--Software developments techniques and legacy systems
-Automatic software generation versus reuse, and legacy systems
-Software quality and process assessment for business enterprise
-Intelligent software systems design, and software evolution techniques
-Agile software and Lean Methods
-Software optimization and formal methods for software design
-Static, dynamic analysis on software performance model, software maintenance
-Software security tools and techniques, and related Software Engineering models
-Formal techniques for software representation, software testing and validation
-Software reliability, and software diagnosis systems
-Mobile code security tools and techniques
-End-user programming environment, User-centered Adoption-Centric Reengineering techniques
-Ontology, cognitive models and philosophical aspects on software design
-Medical Informatics, Software methods and application for biomedicine
-Artificial Intelligence Techniques on Software Engineering
-Software design through interaction, and precognitive software
techniques for interactive software entertainment applications
-Creativity and art in software design principles
-Axiomatic based principles on software design
-Model Driven Development (DVD), code centric to model centric software engineering
-Software methods for medical Informatics, bioinformatics, and bioinformatics
-Emergency Management Informatics, software methods for supporting Civil Protection, First Response and Disaster Recovery
-Software methods for decision support systems and recommender systems

SUBMISSIONS & PUBLICATIONS:
-Papers must be submitted through https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/SOMET2018
-Papers must be written by using the IOS format
(http://www.iospress.nl/service/authors/latex-and-word-tools-for-book-authors/), up to 14 A4 pages for Regular paper, and up to 10 pages for Short papers.
-The Proceedings of the conference will be published as a book by IOS international publisher in series: Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, that is indexed by SCOPUS.

SPECIAL ISSUE:
The International Journal Knowledge-Based Systems intends to publish a special issue 2018. The authors of selected papers will be invited to submit journal extended versions to the special issue on specific topics to be decided.

IMPORTANT DATES:
Submission deadline: March 31 2018
Final Camera-ready Paper due: June 15 2018
Registration period: June 2th 2018 to July 4th 2018