5th International Conference on Software Engineering and Automation (SEAU 2026)

Name: 5th International Conference on Software Engineering and Automation (SEAU 2026)
Start: 2026-08-15T10:00:00+10:00
End: 2026-08-15T11:00:00+10:00
Location: Melbourne, Australia

Schedule

Sat Aug 15 2026 at 10:00 am to 11:00 am

UTC+10:00

Location

Melbourne, Australia | Melbourne, VI

5th International Conference on Software Engineering and Automation (SEAU 2026)

August 15 ~ 16, 2026,Melbourne, Australia

https://seau2026.org/

Scope

5th International Conference on Software Engineering and Automation (SEAU 2026) serves as a premier global forum for presenting and exchanging the latest innovations, research findings, methodologies and industrial experiences in Software Engineering and Automation. As modern software systems grow in complexity and scale, the need for advanced engineering principles, intelligent automation and interdisciplinary collaboration has never been greater. SEAU 2026 aims to bring together leading researchers, practitioners and industry experts to explore these evolving challenges and opportunities.

Authors are invited to contribute high quality submissions that showcase original research results, innovative applications, case studies, surveys and industrial insights demonstrating significant progress in software engineering and automation. The topics listed below represent the comprehensive and forward looking scope of SEAU 2026, capturing both established research areas and the most recent trends shaping the future of the discipline.

Topics of Interest

Foundations and Advances in Software Engineering

Software Engineering Theory and Foundations
Formal Methods, Verification and Model Checking
Static, Dynamic and Hybrid Program Analysis
Requirements Engineering and Modeling
Software Architecture, Design and Patterns
Software Evolution, Maintenance and Refactoring
Empirical Software Engineering & Evidence Based SE
Mining Software Repositories (MSR)
Socio Technical Systems and Organizational SE Research
Cognitive Aspects of Software Engineering

AI Driven, LLM Driven and Agentic Software Engineering

LLM Driven Software Engineering (generation, repair, refactoring, planning)
AI Agents for Autonomous Software Development
Multi Agent Systems for End to End Software Engineering
Prompt Engineering and Prompt Optimization for SE Tasks
Evaluation and Benchmarking of AI Assisted Development Tools
Human AI Collaboration and Developer Experience (DX)
Safety Aligned and Policy Aligned AI Systems
Guardrails, Safety Layers and Alignment Engineering for LLM Based Systems
Engineering AI Generated Codebases (maintainability, hallucination detection, architecture quality)

Software Engineering for AI/ML and Multi Modal Systems

Engineering Large Scale AI/ML Pipelines
MLOps, AIOps, DataOps and Model Lifecycle Management
Testing and Verification of AI/ML Systems
Software Engineering for Multi Modal AI (VLMs, audio text, code vision models)
Federated Learning Systems Engineering
Edge AI, TinyML and On Device Intelligence
Distributed AI Training Infrastructure (scheduling, fault tolerance, resource optimization)
AI Model Deployment, Monitoring and Drift Management
Synthetic Data Generation, Validation and Bias Detection

Software Testing, Quality and Automation

Automated Software Testing and Test Generation
NLP Based Test Automation
Autonomous and Self Adaptive Testing
Testing of Large Scale, Distributed, or Safety Critical Systems
Testing Multi Modal and Agentic AI Systems
Usability and UX Testing Automation
Reliability, Dependability and Quality Engineering
Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) Testing
Chaos Engineering and Resilience Testing
Testability of AI Generated Code

Security, Privacy and Autonomous Cybersecurity

Software Security Engineering
Secure Software Development Lifecycle (SSDLC)
Software Supply Chain Security & SBOM Engineering
Vulnerability Detection, Analysis and Automated Remediation
Security Automation and DevSecOps
Autonomous Cybersecurity Systems (AI driven threat hunting, self healing systems)
Privacy Preserving Software Engineering
Safety Critical and Mission Critical Software Systems
AI Security and Adversarial Robustness

Systems, Platforms and Emerging Technologies

Cloud Native Software Engineering
Microservices and Service Oriented Architectures
Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Engineering and Testing
Distributed Systems and High Performance Computing
Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) and Industrial Automation
Robotics Software Engineering
Autonomous Systems Engineering
Blockchain Based Software Systems
Quantum Software Engineering
Digital Twins and Simulation Driven Engineering
Software Engineering for Neuromorphic and Bio Inspired Computing
Software Engineering for DNA Based Storage Systems

Human Centered, Social and Organizational Aspects

Human Centered AI for Software Engineering
Developer Experience (DX) and Productivity
Collaboration, Coordination and Team Dynamics
Cognitive Load in Software Development
Open Source Ecosystems, Governance and Community Analytics
Software Economics, Decision Making and Value Assessment
Ethics, Fairness and Governance in Software Systems
AI Compliance Engineering (e.g., EU AI Act)

Web, Mobile and User Facing Systems

Web Engineering and Web Scale Systems
Mobile and Wearable Software Engineering
Intelligent User Interfaces and Interaction Automation
XR/AR/VR Software Engineering
AI Enhanced Learning Systems and Learning Analytics

Networking, Automation and Distributed Intelligence

Network Automation and Software Defined Networking (SDN)
Automation in Cloud, Edge and Data Center Systems
Autonomous Service Oriented and Microservices Architectures
Distributed AI Systems and Multi Agent Coordination
Software Engineering for Large Scale LLM Deployment and Inference Optimization

Domain Specific and Application Driven Software Engineering

Software Engineering for Big Data Systems
Software Engineering for Scientific Computing
Software Engineering for Healthcare, Finance and Smart Cities
Software Engineering for Autonomous Vehicles and Drones
Software Engineering for Sustainability and Green Computing
Software Engineering for Critical Infrastructure
Software Engineering for Climate Modeling and Environmental Systems

Paper Submission

Authors are invited to submit papers through the Submission System by May 24, 2026 . Submissions must be original and should not have been published previously or be under consideration for publication while being evaluated for this conference. The proceedings of the conference will be published by Computer Science Conference Proceedings in Computer Science & Information Technology (CS&IT) series(Confirmed).

Selected papers from SEAU 2026, after further revisions, will be published in the special issue of the following journals

International Journal of Software Engineering & Applications (IJSEA)
International Journal of Computer-Aided technologies (IJCAx)
Advanced Computing: An International Journal (ACIJ)
International Journal of Computer Science, Engineering and Information Technology (IJCSEIT)
International Journal in Foundations of Computer Science & Technology (IJFCST)
International Journal of Information Technology, Control and Automation (IJITCA)

Important Dates

(2nd batch : submissions after April 05)