ASWEC was established in 1986 and is Australasia’s leading forum for the software engineering profession to describe important new research results and report valuable project experiences.

Software is everywhere, and the way it is built remains a challenge. In the past decades, software engineering as a discipline has produced many theoretical and practical results. As software is playing more important roles in ever larger and more complex systems, traditional software engineering is interacting substantially with more fields. For example, the emerging research activities around DevOps are looking at the complex interactions between product development and operations in modern IT infrastructure. The challenges in building highly dependable large-scale systems lie in reconnecting logic-based formal methods with other statistical approaches in new ways to better manage the uncertainties of the environment and provide assurance cases. Industry’s use of dynamic, concurrent and functional programming languages in specific domains is making programming language research more connected to software engineering. Cloud computing, service-oriented computing, mobile apps, big data, Internet of Things and software ecosystems are also bringing new contexts to software engineering research.

The scope of software engineering research needs to be expanded and more interaction with other communities will benefit the research going forward. The theme for the next ASWEC is “The Future of Software Engineering”. We are particularly seeking contributions that help redefine the future scope of software engineering from both the traditional software engineering community and other fields. Topics of interest for ASWEC14 include (but are not limited to) the following:

Agile Methods
Computer Supported Cooperative Software Engineering
Configuration Management
Dependable and Secure Computing
DevOps and Operations (esp. in Distributed/Cloud Environment)
Domain-specific Models and Languages, and Model Driven Development
Domain-specific Applications for Logistics, Finance, Health Care, Manufacturing, Defence and etc.
Empirical Research in Software Engineering
Engineering Big Data and Analytics Applications
Engineering Cloud Applications
Engineering/operating Large-Scale Distributed Systems
Formal Methods
Knowledge-Based Software Engineering
Legacy Systems, Software Maintenance and Reverse Engineering
Measurement, Metrics, Experimentation
Mobile Computing and Apps Development
Modularisation Techniques, including Component-Based Software Engineering and Aspect-Oriented Programming
Open Source Software Development
Programming Languages and Techniques such as Dynamic Languages, Concurrent and Functional Programming
Quality Assurance
Real-Time and Embedded Software
Requirements Engineering
Service Oriented Architectures and Services Engineering
Software Analysis and Visualisation
Software Architecture, Design and Patterns
Software Documentation
Software Ecosystem and Ultra-Large-Scale Systems
Software Engineering of Multi-Agent Systems
Software Engineering of Services
Software for Internet of Things and Ubiquitous Computing
Software Modelling Approaches
Software Performance Engineering
Software Processes and Quality
Software Project Management and Risk Management
Software Reuse and Product Lines
Software Security, Safety and Reliability
Software Verification and Validation
Standards and Legal Issues
Usability
Web Applications and REST

Contributions for ASWEC 2014 can be submitted in the form of: Research submissions, Industry/Government submissions, Education submissions, and Doctoral Symposium submissions.