Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering

Call for Chapters Knowledge Engineering for Software Development Life Cycles: Support Technologies and Applications Edited by Dr. Muthu Ramachandran Extended submission of chapter proposal: November 2, 1st December 2009 To be published by IGI Global: http://www.igi-global.com/requests/details.asp?ID=727 Introduction Software guidelines have been with us in many forms within Software Engineering community such as knowledge, experiences, domain expertise, laws, software design principles, rules, design heuristics, hypothesis, experimental results, programming rules, best practices, observations, skills, algorithms have played major role in software development (guidelines based software engineering). Also there has been a significant development in new software paradigms such as components, agile, aspects, and services. How can we best use those 30 years of best practices in solving software related problems? There has been little evidence of automated approaches to the development of large scale systems and software reuse. The demands of Software Engineering imply a growing need for using Artificial Intelligence and Knowledge Engineering (KE) to support all aspects of the software development process. This book aims to provide insights into the application of knowledge based approaches ! to the development of software systems, agile software development, software product line, software components, software architecture, automated code generators, automated test case generations, intelligent systems supporting software reuse and productivity, domain-specific software modelling, automated requirements and semantic knowledge capturing techniques, intelligent software intensive devices and applications. In recent years there has been significant application of neural networks and genetic programming applied to software development for a variety of applications. This book also aims to identify how software development best practices captured as software guidelines can be represented to automated software development, decision making, and knowledge management. Objective of the book One of the main aims of this book is to bridge current state of the art between two major areas of knowledge engineering and software engineering. This book also aims to provide hands-on techniques and automation methods to faster software development activities supported by a range of KE techniques that can be employed. It also brings best practice guidelines for software development that can be encoded as knowledge and can be adopted them in everyday practice. Target Audience This book will be suitable for research communities, academics and well as practitioners. Recommended Topics This book welcomes chapters on a wide range of issues related to knowledge based activities supporting all aspects of software development. The general topics are of interest include KE supporting software requirements, guidelines, process & management, tools, metrics, quality, reuse, testing, and methods. Submissions Procedure Authors are invited to submit on or before 2nd November 2009, a 2 pages manuscript proposal clearly explaining the objective of their submission and the contribution of their research. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by 2nd December 2009, about the status of their proposals and sent chapter organizational guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by 1st March 2009. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. Authors interested in submitting chapters (8,000 – 10,000 words) on the above-suggested topics or other related topics in their area of interest can submit via e-mail to m.ramachandran@leedsmet.ac.uk or kesdlc@gmail.com. Full chapters are due by 1st March 2010. Publisher This book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of the “Information Science Reference” (formerly Idea Group Reference), “Medical Information Science Reference,” “Business Science Reference,” and “Engineering Science Reference” imprints. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit http://www.igi-global.com/ and at www.seresearch.net/kesdlc Important Dates November 2, 1st December 2009 Submission of chapter proposal December 2, 2009 Notification of proposal acceptance March 1, 2010 – Submission of full chapters May 15, 2010 – Notification for acceptance and revisions June 15, 2010 – Final chapter submission Inquiries and submissions can be forwarded electronically to: Dr Muthu Ramachandran Principal Lecturer Innovation North: Faculty of Information and Technology Caedmon Hall Headingley campus Leeds Metropolitan University Leeds LS6 3QS, UK m.ramachandran@leedsmet.ac.uk www.seresearch.net/muthu