The 15th International Conference on

Knowledge and Systems Engineering (KSE 2023)

Hanoi, Vietnam, October 18-20, 2023

Special Session:

Synergies between AI and Software Engineering (SYNAISE)

Knowledge Engineering (KE), Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Software Engineering (SE) are interrelated fields that differ in approaches and techniques but share the common goal of developing intelligent software systems that can solve complex real-world problems. KE and AI work together to provides the theoretical foundation and tools for developing systems that can reason, learn, and act like humans. SE provides practical techniques and methods for building such systems in a trustworthy, reliable and scalable way.

KE and AI technologies have been applied in SE to bring intelligent solutions, especially on automation of development tools, for requirements, testing, coding, verifying and validation of software systems.  On the other hand, the recent increasing popularity of AI raises a growing need of using SE solutions for developing complex AI-based systems, to make them robust, scalable, more efficient and flexible. The synergy of KE, AI and SE can lead to more effective and efficient software development, as well as more intelligent and capable software applications.

This special session aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from SE, KE and AI to exchange about benefits, limitations and challenges of integrating AI with SE. The discussions focus on two aspects:

(1) instilling intelligence in solutions for software engineering problems;

(2) providing software engineering solutions for intelligent system development.

Relevant topics include but are not limited to:

• AI for SE : Applying KE or AI to SE Lifecycle Phases:
  • Natural Language Processing (NLP) for Requirements Elicitation
  • Knowledge-based Systems for Requirements Classification and Traceability
  • Machine Learning for Software Design Patterns
  • Automated Code Generation
  • Smart Code Analysis (Code Smell) and Refactoring
  • Ontologies and Knowledge Graphs for Software Modeling and Transformation
  • Automated Test Case Generation & Intelligent Test Oracles
  • Automated Test Result Analysis and Reporting
  • Predictive Maintenance and Reliability Analysis
  • Adaptive Software Development Process and Project Management
  • Predictive Project Planning, Performance Tuning
  • Automated Risk Management
  • Intelligent Task Assignment and Resource Allocation
• SE for AI : developing SE techniques and methods that are tailored to AI-based systems
  • Languages and Methods to express Requirements for AI-based systems (quality attributes)
  • Process Models, Pipelines and MLOps for AI-based system development
  • Software Architecture for AI-based systems
  • Model-Driven Development for AI-based systems
  • Adversarial machine learning and Security of AI-based systems
  • Verification & Validation for AI-based systems
  • Process Mining for blackbox models

Submission guideline

Submitted papers must present original work, which has not been published elsewhere and is not under submission at any other venue. Papers must be written in English, with a maximum length of 8 pages for the main body and unlimited pages for Appendix and references. Submitted papers must be a PDF, formatted in compliance with the IEEE standard. A LaTeX template can be found here https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html . All submissions will be peer-reviewed for originality and scientific quality, however, violating any of the requirements set above might result in papers being rejected without a full review. Accepted papers will be presented at the main conference and included in the proceedings published by IEEE. At least one author of accepted papers is expected to attend the conference in person to present the work.

– Online submission system: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=kse2023  

– Select Session:  Synergies between AI and Software Engineering (SYNAISE)

Important Dates

• June 15, 2023 , July 25, 2023 (FIRM Deadline): Paper submission deadline
• July 30, 2023, August 30, 2023: Acceptance notifications
• August 15, 2023, September 15, 2023: Camera-ready and author registration

Session Organizers:

• Dinh Thuc NGUYEN, Associate Professor, Head of Knowledge Technology Department, Faculty of Information Technology, University of Science, VNU-HCM , Viet Nam ndthuc@fit.hcmus.edu.vn
• Hanh Nhi TRAN, Associate Professor, Advancing Rigorous Software and System Engineering Research team University of Toulouse Paul Sabatier, IRIT laboratory, France hanh-nhi.tran@irit.fr
• Nhien An LE KHAC, Associate Professor, Director of MSc program in Forensic Computing and Cybercrime Investigation School of Computer Science (CS), University College Dublin, Ireland an.lekhac@ucd.ie
• Minh Son DAO, Senior Researcher, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan dao@nict.go.jp