Announcements

We are pleased to announce that Dr. Li Li has joined Software (ISSN: 2674-113X) as an Editorial Board Member.

Dr. Li Li is currently a Senior Lecturer and Australia Research Council's Early Career Research (ARC DECRA) Fellow at Monash University, Australia. He received his Ph.D. in computer science and information technology in November 2016 under the supervision of Prof. Yves Le Traon (IEEE Fellow) from the University of Luxembourg.

His research interests include Mobile Software Engineering (MSE), Intelligent Software Engineering (ISE), and Software Security. To date, his research has led to 100+ publications in mostly top-tier SE journals, such as ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM) and IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), and conferences, including IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE), and IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE). His publications have received in total 3800+ citations, with an H-index and H10-index at 28 and 60, respectively. His ICSE 2015 publication has received over 600 citations, being one of the most cited papers appearing in ICSE 2015. He has received multiple Best Paper Awards, including an ACM SIGPLAN Distinguished Paper Award in 2021, a Best Student Paper Award at The Web Conference in 2020, an ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award in 2018, an MSR FOSS (Free, Open-Source Software) Impact Paper Award in 2018, and a Best Paper Award at SANER-ERA 2016. He has been ranked as the top-5 most impactful early-stage SE researchers in the world by two continuous bibliometric assessments of SE scholars concerning papers published from 2010 to 2017 and from 2013 to 2020, respectively.

He is an active member of the Software Engineering community and has contributed to (1) organizing many international conferences, such as Program Co-chair for the Doctoral Symposium Track of IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2021), Program Co-chair for the ERA Track of International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER 2020), Sponsorship Chair for IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2020), Social Media Co-chair for IEEE/ACM International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC 2020), etc., and (2) guest-editing journal Special Issues, such as the "Automated Software Engineering for Mobile Applications" issue at the Automated Software Engineering Journal, (3) reviewing original submissions for journals, such as ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM) and IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), and (4) participating in the program committee of premier conferences, including IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE), IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME), and IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE).

For more details, please refer to Dr. Li Li's personal homepage: http://lilicoding.github.io/.

We are pleased to announce that Dr. Eduardo Figueiredo has joined Software (ISSN: 2674-113X) as an Editorial Board Member.

Dr. Eduardo Figueiredo has been an Associate Professor since 2010 and he is the head of the Software Engineering Laboratory (LabSoft) at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG) in Brazil. He received his Ph.D. in software engineering at Lancaster University (UK) in 2009 and was a visiting researcher at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in 2017. Eduardo also holds a B.Sc. degree (2004) in computer science from the Federal University of Ouro Preto (UFOP) and an M.Sc. degree (2006) in software engineering from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Brazil.

His research interests include software reuse, configurable software systems, empirical software engineering, and source code analysis. He has published more than 100 peer-reviewed research papers in international journals and conferences, including IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), and the Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE). He has also led numerous funded research projects in software design, software reuse, and the quality of configurable and adaptable software systems.

Dr. Eduardo Figueiredo has co-organised several conferences and workshops in software engineering-related areas, including the Ibero-American Conference of Software Engineering (CIbSE) in 2020, Brazilian Congress on Software (CBSoft) in 2015, two editions of the Workshop on Empirical Evaluation of Software Composition Techniques (ESCOT) in 2010 and 2011, and two editions of the Workshop on Assessment of Contemporary Modularization Techniques (ACoM) in 2007 and 2008. He has also served as a journal referee and program committee member of international venues, such as for ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), the International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC), and the International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering (EASE).

You can contact him at figueiredo@dcc.ufmg.br and http://www.dcc.ufmg.br/~figueiredo. 

We are pleased to announce that Prof. Dr. Daniela S. Cruzes has joined Software (ISSN: 2674-113X) as an Editorial Board Member.

Dr. Daniela S. Cruzes is a Professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). In addition, she holds a part-time position in VISMA as Lead Security Researcher. Previously, she worked as a senior research scientist at SINTEF in Norway. She has also been a researcher fellow at the University of Maryland and Fraunhofer Center for Experimental Software Engineering-Maryland. Prof. Dr. Daniela Cruzes received her Ph.D. in experimental software engineering at the University of Campinas—UNICAMP in Brazil, in 2007.

Prof. Dr. Cruzes has published more than 100 research papers and book chapters. Her research interests are empirical software engineering, research methods and theory development, synthesis of SE studies, software security, software testing, agile software development processes, and DevOps.

We wish her every success in her new position, and we look forward to her contributions to the journal.

We are pleased to announce that Prof. Dr. Paulo Ferreira has joined Software as an Editorial Board Member.

Prof. Dr. Paulo Ferreira holds a Ph.D. from the Université Pierre et Marie Curie (1996) in Systemes Informatiques with equivalence from the Technical University of Lisbon in Engenharia Informática e de Computadores (1997). His M.Sc. (1992) and B.Sc. (1988) are both from Instituto Superior Técnico (Technical University of Lisbon) in Electrotechnical Engineering. He has held the Habilitation from the same University since November 2009.

He is currently a Full Professor at the University of Oslo, where he supervises four Ph.D. students and several M.Sc. students and teaches two master-level courses (Fog Computing and Programming for Ubiquitous Things). Previously, he was with the Department of Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Lisbon, where he taught courses at both undergraduate and graduate levels, including Operating Systems, Mobile Computing, Middleware for Distributed Internet Applications, and Advanced Distributed Systems.

He led the Distributed Systems Group at INESC ID from 1999 to 2010 (and in alternating biennia since 2010). His interests and research work belong to the scientific area of operating systems and distributed systems, with an emphasis on middleware, large-scale, and mobile computing; and he has supervised 14 Ph.D. students and more than 70 M.Sc. students.

He coordinated and participated in many national and international projects (having been the EU coordinator of the H2020 TRACE project): Comandos, Harness, Broadcast, Flash, PerDIS, Timbus, C4E, TRACE, MoTiV (funded by European Union), OBIWAN, DGG-Rotor, Haddock-FS (funded by Microsoft Research), Mnemosyne, MobileTrans, Electronic Democracy, UbiRep, and novaVM (funded by the Portuguese science and technology foundation), etc. Prof. Dr. Ferreira has also served in many consultancy projects for private and public institutions (national and international) in the area of distributed systems (e.g., Java virtual machine, security).

Prof. Dr. Paulo Ferreira  was Pro-Rector at the Technical University of Lisbon (UTL) between 2007 and 2010, responsible for the analysis and evaluation of existing information and communication systems.

He is the author or co-author of more than 130 peer-reviewed scientific communications, 1 book on operating systems (edited both in Portugal and Brazil), 1 book in distributed context-aware systems (edited by Springer), and has received 2 ACM/IFIP Middleware best paper awards. He has served on various program committees of top-level international conferences, and performed reviews for several international journals. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the Springer Journal of Internet Services and Applications, and he served as an expert to the European Union for the assessment of projects proposals under the 7^th Framework Program. In addition, he was PC-Chair (with Liuba Shrira) of ACM/IFIP/Usenix Middleware 2018. He was one of the founders of EuroSys (ACM - European Chapter of the Special Interest Group on Operating Systems) and one of the officers and a member of the Steering Committee. Currently, he is a member of the Steering Committees of EuroSys, ACM/IFIP/Usenix Middleware (from 2011 to 2014 and since 2017), and a member of ACM/IFIP/Usenix Adaptive and Reflective Middleware (since 2014).

He was awarded the mention of “excellent teaching” four times, he is a senior member of ACM and IEEE, and he has received two Best Paper Awards at international events (ACM/IFIP/Usenix Middleware Conference).

We are pleased to announce that Prof. Dr. Paolino Di Felice has joined Software as an Editorial Board Member.

Prof. Dr. Paolino Di Felice has been a Professor of Computer Science at the Department of Industrial and Information Engineering and Economics of the University of L'Aquila, Italy, since 1999.

He has (co-)authored about 120 articles appearing in (IEEE, ACM, and Elsevier) journals, books, and international conference proceedings. The main research topics investigated concerned geographical databases and software engineering. A relevant research topic belonging to the domain of geographical databases concerned the study of 2D spatial relations between spatial objects. Spatial relations constitute the kernel of spatial SQL running on top of the currently available DataBase Management Systems (e.g., Oracle, IBM-DB2, and PostgreSQL/PostGIS). His research work has been included in the Open Geospatial Consortium standards for the definition of 2D vector data types and topological operators.

His research in the domain of software engineering started in the mid 1980s. Topics studied concerned mathematical software, programming methodologies, code reusability, software indexing, and class library for geographic applications. More recently, his research focus has moved to code generation of MVC web applications using the model-driven architecture and the assessment of the quality of the generated code. Currently, his group is developing a software tool supporting the automatic feeding of the Metadata Repository about UML Class Diagrams.

Prof. Dr. Di Felice has carried out a consistent activity of technological transfer in collaboration with several Italian IT firms. His research has been funded by national and international institutions and carried out in collaboration with researchers of several countries (Italy, Holland, Germany, Canada, and the USA). He has served regularly within national and international committees.

Prof. Dr. Di-Felice’s research and publications have received many citations in the research community. His Scopus data are the following: h-index 16, number of citations 1720 (https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=35613348600); while the Google Scholar citation results are above 4000 (https://scholar.google.it/citations?&user=GP6_bRUAAAAJ).

We are pleased to announce that Dr. Andreas L. Symeonidis has joined Software as an Editorial Board Member.

Dr. Andreas L. Symeonidis is an Associate Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, and the Chief Research Officer at Cyclopt.com. His research interests include software engineering processes, model-driven engineering, software quality and software analytics, middleware robotics, and knowledge extraction from big data repositories. Dr. Symeonidis’ work has been published in over 150 journal articles, book chapters, and conference publications. He is co-author of the books “Agent Intelligence through Data Mining” (Springer publishing), “Mining Software Engineering Data for Software Reuse” (Springer publishing), and “Practical Machine Learning in R” (Leanpub publishing). He is currently coordinating more than 10 contract R&D projects, while serving occasionally as an R&D project evaluator and reviewer for the European Commission.

You can see more at: http://users.auth.gr/symeonid.

We are pleased to announce that Prof. Dr. Francisco José García-Peñalvo has joined Software as an Editorial Board Member.

Prof. Dr. Francisco José García-Peñalvo is a Full Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Automation at the University of Salamanca (USAL), with three six-year periods of research, one six-year period of transferring and innovation, and four five-year periods of recognized teaching. He received the Gloria Begué award for teaching excellence in 2019. He was also a Distinguished Professor at the School of Humanities and Education at the Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico, and a Researcher of International Impact at the Universidad Nacional San Agustín, Arequipa, Peru. Since 2006 he has been the head of the Research Group Recognized by the USAL GRIAL (research GRoup on InterAction and eLearning), a group that is a Consolidated Research Unit of the Junta de Castilla y León Government (UIC 81). He was included in the University of de Stanford’s World's Top 2% Scientists list (2021) https://doi.org/10.17632/btchxktzyw.3. He was the Vice-Dean of Innovation and New Technologies of the Faculty of Sciences of the USAL between 2004 and 2007 and the Vice-Rector of Technological Innovation of this University between 2007 and 2009. He is currently the Rector's Delegate for Virtual Teaching and the Coordinator of the Doctorate Program in Education in the Knowledge Society at USAL. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the journals Education in the Knowledge Society and Journal of the Information Technology Research, and Associate Editor of many journals, with a special mention to the journal Computers in Human Behavior Reports. He has published more than 100 research papers in JCR-indexed journals (53 Q1).

For more detailed information on his publications, these are the public links to his profiles in Google Scholar (http://goo.gl/sDwrr0), Publons (https://bit.ly/2u2FN5l) and ORCID (http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9987-5584).

We are pleased to announce that Prof. Dr. Ricardo Colomo-Palacios has joined Software as a new Editorial Board Member.

Prof. Dr. Ricardo Colomo-Palacios is a professor at the Department of Computer Science and Communication at Østfold University College. He is currently the director of the Information Systems and Software Engineering research group. He acquired his Ph.D. in computer science at the Universidad Politécnica of Madrid (2005). He also holds an MBA from the Instituto de Empresa (2002). He has been working in the industry for ten years as a software engineer, project manager, and software engineering consultant in several companies, including being a Spanish IT leader at INDRA. After that, he joined full time academia, firstly at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain, and from 2014 at Østfold University College, Norway.

His works have been published in top journals of the discipline and he has also published more than 30 Special Issues in journals such as Journal of Software: Evolution and Process, Software Quality Journal, Journal of Global Information Technology Management, Science of Computer Programming, and Future Generation Computer Systems or Computer Standards & Interfaces, to name some of them. This editorial service is also tangible in his role as associate editor in IEEE Software, Computer Standards & Interfaces or IEEE Access. Prof. Dr. Colomo-Palacios is also engaged in the organization of many international conferences and workshops in the software arena.

His current research areas include software engineering management, people in software projects, software project management, business software, software and services process improvement, securing software, and cyber security. His works have been cited on a regular basis and, for instance, his citation results in Google Scholar are above 7300, and his h-index is 48.

In 2018, he received the Research Prize granted by Østfold University College as the most distinguished scholar of that year. He received several recognitions as an author of papers in journals and conferences, citing the award for Best Paper published in IET software in 2014 as one of his most important recognitions.

Software (ISSN: 2674-113X) is an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal of software engineering. It publishes reviews, regular research papers, and communications. Our aim is to publish timely experimental and theoretical research results in a rapid and readily accessible manner.

The Software editorial team is pleased to announce an open call for Special Issue proposals. This Special Issue will offer a group of authors the opportunity to work on an interconnected set of papers on an innovative topic. We welcome high-quality proposals that will be evaluated in a continuous selection process throughout the year.

In order to ensure that the topic of your proposal is within the scope of Software, please read the aim and scope of Software at the following website:
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/software/about.

Proposals for Special Issues should be sent to the Editorial Office (software@mdpi.com) or submitted via the following link:
https://www.mdpi.com/journalproposal/sendproposalspecialissue/software.

The following information should be provided in a proposal:

• A 150–200-word summary that clearly states the significance, novelty, technical advancement, and adherence to the scope of the journal of the proposed topic;
• A list of 5–10 keywords relating to the topic;
• A brief resume of the proposed Guest Editors, together with their information (title, name, email, affiliation, personal website, keywords of interests);
• A proposed submission deadline (a Special Issue will usually be open for submissions for 6–8 months);
• A list of at least 20 potential contributors or a list of 8 planned papers.

As a Guest Editor, you would be responsible for:

• Inviting your peers to submit papers to be published in your Special Issue. These papers will be able to take advantage of the high publicity offered by our open access publishing, our rapid and high-quality peer-review process, and immediate publication after acceptance;
• Checking the suitability of abstracts/manuscripts submitted to the Special Issue;
• Making pre-check decisions regarding whether to send a new submission to peer review;
• Making final decisions regarding whether to accept or reject a paper based on peer-review outcomes.

As a Guest Editor, you would have the following privileges:

• A certificate of recognition as a Guest Editor of Software;
• Publishing one paper free of charge in your Special Issue;
• Inviting authors to submit high-quality papers to be published in your Special Issue free of charge or with certain discounts;
• If the Special Issue is successful and features at least 10 manuscripts accepted after full peer review, we can organize it into a printed book and send you a free copy as a gift.

Editorial Office’s role:

The Editorial Office will set up the Special Issue website, arrange the promotional material, assist with invitations for paper contributions, and take care of the administrative tasks associated with peer review, including inviting reviewers, collating reports, contacting authors, and arranging professional production before publication.

Please do not hesitate to contact the Editorial Office (software@mdpi.com) if you are interested and would like further details or clarification.

We look forward to receiving your proposals.

Software Editorial Office

We are pleased to announce that Prof. Hironori Washizaki, has joined Software as a new Editorial Board Member.

Hironori Washizaki is a Professor and the Associate Dean of the Research Promotion Division at Waseda University in Tokyo and a Visiting Professor at the National Institute of Informatics. He also works in the industry as an Outside Director of SYSTEM INFORMATION and eXmotion.

He received his Ph.D. in information and computer science from Waseda University in 2003. His research interests include systems and software engineering. He has published more than 150 research papers in refereed international journals and conferences, including Computer, TETC, IoT-J, EMSE, SCICO, ICSE, and ASE. He has led numerous academic-industry joint research and funded projects in software requirements, software design, software reuse, and patterns, software quality assurance, software development process and management, AI/machine learning software engineering, and ICT/programming education. Since 2017, he has led a large-scale grant at MEXT, called enPiT-Pro SmartSE, which encompasses recurrent professional education in IoT, AI, software engineering, and business.

He has been the IEEE Computer Society (IEEE-CS) Vice President for Professional and Educational Activities since 2021 and IEEE-CS Board of Governors (BoG) member. He is spearheading the Guide to the Software Engineering Body of Knowledge (SWEBOK) evolution project. He has also served as Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing (TETC), Steering Committee Member of the IEEE Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training (CSEE&T), Editor of the International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (IJSEKE), Editorial Board Member of Education Sciences, Editorial Board Member of Software, Associate Editor of Frontiers in Computer Science, and Advisory Committee Member of the IEEE-CS flagship conference COMPSAC. He is a Professional Member of IEEE-Eta Kappa Nu. He has served as the general and program chair of major conferences, including ICST, CSEE&T, APSEC, AsianPLoP, and COMPSAC SIoT.

Since 2015, he has been the Convener of ISO/IEC/JTC1 SC7/WG20 to standardize bodies of knowledge and professional certifications, including the development of the ISO/IEC 24773 series. Furthermore, he has contributed to software engineering and the general computing professional community in Japan, Asia, and globally. He has served as Chair of the IEEE-CS Japan Chapter. He has served as a Steering Committee Member for the Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC). He has served as an Asia Liaison at SEKE since 2010. He is also active in the Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ), where he has served as the Editor of its journal and Chair of the Special Interest Group of Software Engineering (SIGSE).

You can contact him at washizaki@waseda.jp and http://www.washi.cs.waseda.ac.jp/.