Software Technology

Welcome to the Software Technology (ST) Track. This year we received 96 submissions to our 18 minitracks. Other than the 12 papers by minitrack Chairs, which were reviewed separately, all papers were reviewed within their own minitracks. AI is a major theme in several minitracks, in addition to familiar topics such as software process, cybersecurity, sustainability, and mobile and edge computing. We are proud to present both an evolving track with contemporary themes as well as lasting topics in minitracks with several years of existence. Given that you are reading this, you might be interested in proposing your own minitrack. Please consider proposing a minitrack in cutting edge areas of ST. This year's minitracks are as follows:

Application of Generative AI in Software Development: explores the evolving role, advancements, methods, and broader implications of integrating Generative AI into software development.

Applied Security Through Cyber Innovation and Implementation: focuses on innovative, multidisciplinary approaches to addressing cybersecurity challenges in IT and OT systems, emphasizing rigorous research on evolving threats, hyperconvergence, and effective protection strategies.

Artificial Intelligence Security: Ensuring Safety, Trustworthiness, and Responsibility in AI Systems: explores research and trends in AI security, focusing on safety, trustworthiness, transparency, and policy to ensure AI systems are secure, reliable, and trustworthy.

Beyond Video Games: Alternative Game Technology Applications and Game Experiences: explores the use of game engines beyond video game development, focusing on diverse applications such as film, architecture, health, education, AR/VR, and interactive experiences, welcoming contributions from implementation to content creation.

Building Software in a World of Digital Twins: examines the impact of software and cyber-physical systems on society, emphasizing interdisciplinary collaboration to address challenges and develop responsible, well-being-focused solutions across science, technology, policy, and civil domains.

Cyber Operations, Defense, and Forensics: focuses on advancing cyber operations, defenses, and digital forensics by exploring solutions to secure data, assess technology impact, address abuse, and evaluate responses to emerging technological challenges in commercial, government, and legal contexts.

Cybersecurity and Software Assurance: focuses on advancing research, technologies, and practices to enhance the security and dependability of software systems, uniting cybersecurity and software assurance experts in a multidisciplinary approach to address persistent vulnerabilities and evolving threats.

Games for Impact: explores the design, development, and impact of games and game technologies beyond entertainment, focusing on applications in health, learning, empathy, social innovation, and citizen science.

Generative and Conversational AI in Information Systems Research and Education: Opportunities and Challenges: investigates the applications of Generative and Conversational AI in Information Systems, focusing on areas like NLP, recommendation systems, and personalization, addressing their integration into IS research, practice, and education

Impact of AI on Software Engineering: examines how AI technologies are transforming software engineering, from development to lifecycle management, fostering discussion and innovation through cuttingedge research on their impact and applications.

Intelligent Edge Computing: explores the synergy of software, devices, networks, and people in dynamic environments, emphasizing the role of intelligent edge computing in IoT/IoE systems and the integration of generative AI, with a focus on sustainability, energy efficiency, and cloud-edge paradigms.

Peer-to-Peer Systems in the Third Decade of the New Millennium: examines the potential of novel Peer-to- Peer ecosystems to address challenges, from community-based social media moderation to drone coordination, sensor monitoring, and crowd control, inviting insights on innovative solutions.

Security and Privacy Aspects of Human-Computer- Interactions: focuses on the intersection of information security, privacy, and human-computer interaction (HCI), exploring secure handling of user input data, innovative HCI methods, and strategies to enhance user awareness and decision-making in security- related contexts.

Software Sustainability: Research on Usability, Maintainability, and Reproducibility: examines the interplay of usability, sustainability, and reproducibility, focusing on concepts like containerization, longlasting software strategies, user interfaces, and data curation, with particular relevance to Science Gateways and virtual research environments.

Software Technology and Software Development: explores emerging trends in software development, focusing on multi-platform solutions, advancements in AI, and distributed systems, while addressing challenges in usability, business value, and domain-specific applications through both applied and theoretical perspectives.

Tools, Processes, and Models for Enabling Efficient and Agile Projects, Teams, and Organizations: examines evolving methods and tools for rapid development, such as Agile, DevOps, low-code platforms, and AI-driven coding, addressing organizational challenges like scaling, remote work, and knowledge gaps, while exploring applications in diverse contexts like data science and product development.

Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning: explores explainable, reproducible, ethical, and trustworthy AI, focusing on transparency in AI/ML models, addressing bias, ensuring dataset comprehensiveness, and fostering reproducibility to build trust and confidence in AI-driven results.

Use of LLMs for Program Analysis and Generation Minitrack: examines the impact of Large Language Models (LLMs) on software development and evaluation, exploring their potential to assist programming, generate malicious code, or fast-track flawed solutions, and invites empirical studies and evaluations of their use in these contexts.

We hope that you enjoy this broad spectrum of stimulating and provocative research!

Rick Kazman
University of Hawaii
kazman@hawaii.edu

Tor-Morten Grønli
Kristiania University College
Tor-Morten.Gronli@kristiania.no