Academy & Industry Research Collaboration Center (AIRCC)

Scope & Topics

The International Journal of Software Engineering & Applications (IJSEA) is a bi-monthly open access peer-reviewed journal that publishes articles which contribute new results in all areas of the Software Engineering & Applications. The goal of this journal is to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to focus on understanding Modern software engineering concepts & establishing new collaborations in these areas.

Authors are solicited to contribute to the journal by submitting articles that illustrate research results, projects, surveying works and industrial experiences that describe significant advances in the areas of software engineering & applications.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following

    AI Driven Software Engineering
  • AI assisted coding, debugging, and refactoring
  • LLM based development workflows
  • Autonomous software development agents
  • AI generated testing and documentation
    • Software Engineering for AI/ML Systems
  • MLOps and continuous training pipelines
  • Data centric AI engineering
  • Model governance, safety, and reliability
  • Testing and validation of ML enabled systems
    • Software Architecture & Cloud Native Engineering
  • Microservices, service mesh, and distributed architectures
  • Serverless and event driven systems
  • Resilience, scalability, and fault tolerance
  • Architecture evolution and technical debt
    • DevOps, DevSecOps & Platform Engineering
  • CI/CD automation and infrastructure as code
  • Secure software supply chains
  • Observability, reliability engineering, and SRE
  • Platform engineering and developer productivity
    • Software Testing, Verification & Quality Assurance
  • Automated test generation and program repair
  • Static and dynamic analysis
  • Fuzzing, mutation testing, and formal verification
  • Quality, reliability, and resilience engineering
    • Software Maintenance, Evolution & Reengineering
  • Legacy system modernization
  • Code transformation and refactoring
  • Software evolution analytics
  • Mining technical debt
    • Mining Software Repositories & Empirical SE
  • Big data driven SE
  • Developer behavior and productivity analytics
  • Telemetry based engineering
  • Evidence based SE practices
    • Human Centered Software Engineering
  • Developer experience (DX)
  • Cognitive aspects of programming
  • Collaboration and socio technical systems
  • Human AI interaction in development

Important Dates

  • Submission Deadline : February 21, 2026
  • Notification                   : March 13, 2026
  • Final Manuscript Due : March 20, 2026
  • Publication Date          : Determined by the Editor-in-Chief

ERA Indexed

  • IJSEA is listed in ERA 2023 as per the Australian Research Council (ARC) Journal Ranking.New
  • IJSEA is listed in ERA 2018 as per the Australian Research Council (ARC) Journal Ranking.
  • IJSEA is listed in ERA 2015 as per the Australian Research Council (ARC) Journal Ranking.

Call for Papers