9th International Symposium on Software Engineering Processes and
Applications (SEPA: 2017)
in conjunction with ICCSA 2017

The accepted papers will be published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science by Springer
http://sepa.covenantuniversity.edu.ng/
http://www.iccsa.org/workshops

Following the grand success of SEPA 2016 (in Beijing, China), SEPA 2015 (in Banff, Canada), SEPA 2014 (in Guimaraes, Portugal), SEPA 2013 (in Ho Chi Ming, Vietnam),SEPA 2012 (in Salvador, Brazil), SEPA 2011 (in Santander, Spain), SEPA 2010 (in Fukuoka, Japan), SEPA 2009 (in Sowon, Korea), SEPA 2016(in conjunction with ICCSA 2017) is scheduled to be held during July 3- 6, 2017 in Trieste, Italy in collaboration with the University of Trieste Italy.

Submission deadline: April 3, 2017

About the Workshop and Topics
Software Engineering Processes and Applications (SEPA: 2017) is aimed to provide a forum to scientists/researchers/engineers/practitioners and academicians to share their ideas, experiences and researches in the field of software engineering process and applications. SEPA 2017 covers all the frontier issues and trends in the modern software development processes. It includes process models, development process for different software platforms (e.g. social networks, cloud), process for adaptive, dependable, embedded, systems, agile development, software engineering practices, requirements, system and design engineering including architectural design, component level design, formal methods, software modeling, testing strategies and tactics, process and product metrics, Web Engineering, project management, risk management, and configuration management. SEPA also invite papers for the development process of the software/software systems in application areas e.g. agriculture, aviation industry, business, cyber-crime, education, government, military etc.
SEPA invites you to submit theme papers that describe original and significant contribution in all above-mentioned area of software engineering processes. The paper submitted to SEPA 2017 must not be submitted elsewhere either in conference or journal and should be 12 - 16 pages (LNCS style). Papers selected after peer review will be included in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science published by Springer (only after completing registration) and presented orally at the conference.

Publication
All contributions will be reviewed by international program committee members and judged on their quality and relevance. The accepted papers for SEPA 2017 will be published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science as a book series of Computational Science and Its Applications: ICCSA. Please note that one of the authors of the accepted paper must be register and supposed to present the paper in the conference (virtual presentation is also possible for some cases). The extended version of selected papers will also be invited for the publication in a reputed International Journal.

Submission

Please submit your paper through ICCSA 2017 conference web site.
Submission site: http://ess.iccsa.org/cgi-bin/login.py

while, submitting to conference site, please select the track of your submission "Ninth Int Symposium on Software Engineering Processes and Applications (SEPA 2017)".

Special Issues SEPA 2017
In several countries the conference papers are not considered in evaluation of academic performances. In this point of view, we have decided to publish the extended version of all presented papers in SEPA in special issues of several international journals. The best papers will be selected for an ISI SCIE indexed journal. The papers will also be selected for International Journal of Software Science and Computational Intelligence (IJSSCI: Published by IGI global), International Journal of Open Source Software and Processes (IJOSSP) (IGI Global, USA) and International Journal of Human Capital Information(IGI Global) with the condition that the papers should fall under the aim and scope of the mentioned journals. Remaining papers will be accommodated in an International journal: Covenant Journal of Informatics and Communication Technology (an Official Journal of Covenant University). We are highly thankful to the Management of all these journals for accepting the special issues.

Important Dates
Abstract and Full Paper submission: October 30, 2016 – April 3, 2017
Notification of Acceptance and Early-bird Registration starts: April 28, 2017
Submission deadline/Registration for the final version of the papers: May 15, 2017
SEPA 2016 Conference: July 3-6, 2017


Organizing Chair

Prof. Sanjay Misra
Professor of Computer Engineering
Covenant University
Contact: ssopam@gmail.com

Programme Committee Chair

Dr. Ricardo Colomo-Palacios
Computer Science Department
Østfold University College, Norway
rcolomo@gmail


International Programme Committee Members

Y. Wang, University of Calgary, Canada
Mario Fusani,National Research Council of Italy
Daniel Rodríguez, University of Alcalá, Spain
Robertas Damasevicius, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania
Reda Alhajj, University of Calgary, Canada
Emilia Mendes, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden
Vahid Garousi, Hacettepe University Ankara, Turkey
Broderick Crawford, Pontificia Universidad Catolica De Valparaiso, PUCV, Chile
Michel dos Santos Soares, Federal University of Sergipe, Brazil
V. B. Singh, University of Delhi, India
José Alfonso Aguilar,Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa, Maxico
Ricardo Soto, Pontificia Universidad Catolica De Valparaiso,Chile
Eduardo Guerra, National Institute of space research, Sao Jose, Brazil
Murat Koyuncu, Atilim University, Turkey
Tolga Pustali, Cankaya University, Turkey
Matthew O. Adigun, University of Zululand, South Africa
Cristina Casado Lumbreras, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
Ibrahim Akman, Atilim University, Ankara, Turkey
Marco Crasso, UNICEN University, Argentina
Markus Holopainen, University of Helsinki, Finland
Takashi Michikawa, Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology (RCAST), Japan
Cristian Mateos, UNICEN University, Argentina
Jose Luis Ordiales Coscia, UNICEN University, Argentina
Goldie Gabrani, University Of Delhi, India
Osman Abul, PhD, TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Ankara, Turkey.
Pham Quoc Trung, HCMC University of Technology, HCMC, Vietnam
Alejandro Zunino, UNICEN University, Argentina
Eudisley Anjos, Federal University of Paraiba (UFPB) – Brazil
Upasana Gitanjali Singh, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Ravin Ahuja, University Of Delhi, India
Rinkaj Goyal, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, India