Advancing Software Engineering with Artificial Intelligence
A special issue of Computers (ISSN 2073-431X). This special issue belongs to the section "AI-Driven Innovations".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2026 | Viewed by 481
Special Issue Editors
Interests: AI; machine learning; explainable AI; data mining
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Interests: artificial intelligence; machine learning; software engineering; optimization; software testing
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue focuses on the integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) into all aspects of Software Engineering. While AI has been applied to tasks such as code generation, testing, and requirements analysis, several critical challenges remain underexplored, including explainability, human–AI collaboration, software maintenance, security, ethics, reproducibility, and sustainability.
For this Special Issue, we request high-quality original research and surveys addressing these gaps, aiming to foster AI solutions that are trustworthy, effective, ethical, and sustainable across the software development lifecycle.
Key areas of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Artificial intelligence in software engineering;
- AI-assisted software development;
- Lifecycle-wide AI integration;
- Explainable and trustworthy AI for software engineering;
- Human–AI collaboration;
- AI for software maintenance;
- AI for software testing;
- Bias and fairness in software AI;
- Security and robustness of AI systems;
- Reproducibility;
- AI-powered refactoring and code quality analysis.
Dr. Waddah Saeed
Dr. AbdulRahman Alsewari
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- artificial intelligence (AI)
- software engineer
- software AI
- AI systems
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