The conference will bring together leading researchers, engineers and scientists in the domain of interest from around the world.The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of concepts, state of the art, research, standards, implementations, running experiments, applications, and industrial case studies. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following topics of interest for submission include, but are not limited to: 

Fundamentals in software development

Software architecture, patterns, frameworks;
Software analysis and model checking;
Software architectural scalability;
Requirements engineering and design;
Software design;
Software modeling;
Software process and workflow;
Software validation and verification

Software security, privacy, safeness

Software safety and security;
Security, privacy and safeness in software;
Software vulnerabilities;
Assessing risks in software;
Software trace analysis;
Software uncertainties;
Dynamic detection of likely invariants
High confidence software

Trends and achievements

Machine learning-oriented software;
Fast data-pressing algorithms;
Special software for Industry 4.0 applications;
Software for Cyber-physical systems;
Internet-of-Things (IoT)-oriented software;
Deep-software for data analytics;
Software for pervasive systems;
Green-oriented software engineering;
Mobile applications-oriented software;
Interactive Big data processing 	

Design tools for developing software

Formal specifications in software;
Programming mechanisms;
Requirement specification languages;
Programming languages;
Automation of software design and implementation;
Web service based software;
Scenario-based model synthesis;
Merging partial behavioral models;
Scenario-based model synthesis

Open source software

Open source software (OSS) methodologies;
OSS development and debugging;
Performance of OSS;
OSS roles and responsibilities;
OSS incremental development;
Distribution of decision-making;
Operational boundaries;
Experience reports and lessons learned;
Open source licensing

Specialized software advanced applications

Database related software;
Software for mobile vehicles;
Biomedical-related software;
Biometrics related software;
Mission critical software;
E-health related software;
Crisis-situation software;
Multimedia software applications 	

Mechanisms for software development

Software composition;
Co-design and codeplay;
Software dependencies;
Adaptive software;
Context-sensitive software;
Policy-driven software design;
Embedded software;
Parallel and distributed software
Software rejuvenation

Software engineering for service computing

Service computing technologies;
Service level reuse paradigm;
Cloud computing development methods;
SaaS development methods and techniques;
Service computing paradigm;
QoS models for service computing;
Testing methods for service computing;
Approaches to service process improvement;
Approaches to Big Data Software Engineering

Software performance

Software performance modeling;
Software performance engineering;
Performance testing;
Web-service based software performance;
Performance of rule-based software;
Methods for performance improvements;
Error ranking via correlation;
Empirical evaluation of defects