<div dir="ltr"><p align="center" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.666666984558105px;text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Arial Narrow',sans-serif">Computational Intelligence Applications in Software Engineering (CIASE 2013)</span></b></p>
<p align="center" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.666666984558105px;text-align:center"><b><u><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Arial Narrow',sans-serif">Special Session</span></u></b></p><p align="center" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.666666984558105px;text-align:center">
<b style="line-height:15.333333015441895px"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Arial Narrow',sans-serif">at the Third International Conference on Communications and Information Technology (ICCIT 2013) June 19</span></b><b style="line-height:15.333333015441895px"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Cambria Math',serif">‐</span></b><b style="line-height:15.333333015441895px"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Arial Narrow',sans-serif">21, 2013 – Beirut, Lebanon</span></b><br>
</p><p align="center" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.666666984558105px;text-align:center"><b><i><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Arial Narrow',sans-serif"><a href="http://www.iccit-conf.org/" target="_blank">http://www.iccit-conf.org</a></span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Arial Narrow',sans-serif"></span></i></b></p>
<p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.666666984558105px"></p><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.666666984558105px;text-align:justify;line-height:15.333333015441895px"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:8pt;line-height:12px">The CIASE 2013 provides an excellent international forum for sharing knowledge and results in theory, methodology and applications of computational intelligence in software engineering, targeting the provision of alternative, interdisciplinary approaches for tackling problems found in Software Engineering. The integration of Software Engineering with Computational Intelligence is very important to both academic and research communities as well as to software industries. The overlap between Computational Intelligence and Software Engineering has seen the development of Computational Intelligence applications to address various problems in Software Engineering. Some example applications include software measurement selection, defect prediction models, Cost Estimation and Failure Modeling, software reuse, software requirements gathering, project management, etc.</span><br>
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<span style="font-size:8pt;line-height:12px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">The aim of this special session is to obtain a good perspective into the current state of practice of computational intelligence applications to address important Software Engineering problems. some topics relevant to this session include, but are not limited to:</span></p>
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<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:0in"><p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Clustering and Classification</span></p></td><td rowspan="23" style="padding:0in 22.5pt">
<p style="text-align:justify;vertical-align:middle"><b><i><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">applied to</span></i></b><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p></td><td style="padding:0in">
<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Requirements Engineering</span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="padding:0in"><p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Decision Support</span></p>
</td><td style="padding:0in"><p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Software Architectures</span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="padding:0in"><p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Machine Learning</span></p>
</td><td style="padding:0in"><p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Software Methodologies</span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="padding:0in"><p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Data Mining</span></p>
</td><td style="padding:0in"><p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Software Design</span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="padding:0in"><p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Text Mining & Retrieval</span></p>
</td><td style="padding:0in"><p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Software Performance</span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="padding:0in"><p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Fuzzy Logic & Systems</span></p>
</td><td style="padding:0in"><p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Software Quality Modelling & Assessment</span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="padding:0in"><p style="text-align:justify">
<span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Probabilistic Reasoning</span></p></td><td style="padding:0in"><p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Software Reliability Modelling & Forecasting</span></p>
</td></tr><tr><td style="padding:0in"><p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Model Learning</span></p></td><td style="padding:0in"><p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Software Maintenance</span></p>
</td></tr><tr><td style="padding:0in"><p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Recommender Systems</span></p></td><td style="padding:0in"><p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Software Testing, Verification & Validation</span></p>
</td></tr><tr><td style="padding:0in"><p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Expert Systems</span></p></td><td style="padding:0in"><p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Software Metrics</span></p>
</td></tr><tr><td style="padding:0in"><p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Artificial Neural Networks</span></p></td><td style="padding:0in"><p style="text-align:justify">
<span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Software Reuse</span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="padding:0in"><p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Evolutionary Algorithms</span></p>
</td><td style="padding:0in"><p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Software Project Management</span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="padding:0in"><p style="text-align:justify">
<span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Ranking Algorithms</span></p></td><td style="padding:0in"><p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Object-Oriented Development</span></p>
</td></tr><tr><td style="padding:0in"><p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Cognitive Processes</span></p></td><td style="padding:0in"><p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Open Source Software</span></p>
</td></tr><tr><td style="padding:0in"><p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Evolutionary Computing</span></p></td><td style="padding:0in"><p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Agile Software Development</span></p>
</td></tr><tr><td style="padding:0in"><p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Swarm Intelligence</span></p></td><td style="padding:0in"><p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Software Repository Management</span></p>
</td></tr><tr><td style="padding:0in"><p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Artificial Immune Systems</span></p></td><td style="padding:0in"><p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Mobile Software Development</span></p>
</td></tr><tr><td style="padding:0in"><p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Dempster-Shafer Theory</span></p></td><td style="padding:0in"><p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Software Risk Analysis & Modelling</span></p>
</td></tr><tr><td style="padding:0in"><p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Chaos Theory</span></p></td><td style="padding:0in"><p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Configuration Management</span></p>
</td></tr><tr><td style="padding:0in"><p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Multi-valued Logic</span></p></td><td style="padding:0in"><p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Component-Based Software Development</span></p>
</td></tr><tr><td style="padding:0in"><p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Ensemble Techniques</span></p></td><td style="padding:0in"><p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Cloud Computing</span></p>
</td></tr><tr><td style="padding:0in"><p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Hybrid Intelligent Models</span></p></td><td style="padding:0in"><p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Web Engineering</span></p>
</td></tr><tr><td style="padding:0in"><p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p></td><td style="padding:0in"><p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Search-Based Software Engineering</span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Context-Aware Software Systems</span></p><p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Aspect-Oriented Software Systems</span></p>
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<p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.666666984558105px;text-align:justify;line-height:15.333333015441895px"><span style="font-size:8pt;line-height:12px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Researchers are encouraged to submit their contributions that have direct impact or high dependence on practical issues encountered in real-world environments. Industrial- and market-oriented research papers are also highly encouraged. To this end, CIASE's Program Committee consists of members not only from academic/research institutions but also from the software industry, and these members will assist in the review process in cases of industrial- and market-related papers.</span></p>
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<p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.666666984558105px;text-align:justify;line-height:15.333333015441895px"><b><span style="font-size:8pt;line-height:12px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Submission & Publication:</span></b><b><span style="font-size:8pt;line-height:12px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></b></p>
<p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.666666984558105px;text-align:justify;line-height:15.333333015441895px"><span style="font-size:8pt;line-height:12px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Accepted papers will be published on IEEEXplore (IEEE Digital Library). Prospective authors are invited to submit an original full-length paper (10-point font) in IEEE format via the EDAS submissions system at <a href="http://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=13485" title="ICCIT EDAS" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(33,33,32);text-decoration:initial">ICCIT EDAS</span></a>. Note that the maximum number of pages is 6; 5 pages plus 1 additional page allowed with a charge for the one additional page of USD100 if accepted. Submitted papers must represent original material that is not currently under review in any other conference or journal and has not been previously published.</span></p>
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