The 18th IEEE/ACIS International Conference on Software Engineering Research, Management and Applications (SERA2020) brings together researchers, practitioners, and advanced graduate students to exchange and share their experiences, new ideas, and research results and research-in-progress about all aspects (theory, applications and tools) of Software Engineering Research, Management and Applications, and discuss the practical challenges encountered, and the solutions adopted.

• Reqs. Engineering
• SW Process Models
• Software Process Improvement
• Business Process Engineering
• Software Architecture
• Enterprise Architecture
• Component-Based Software Engineering
• Software Testing
• Program Analysis
• Software Impact Analysis
• Design Patterns and Frameworks
• Model Driven Architecture
• Modeling with UML
• Software Reuse and Metrics
• Object-Oriented Technology
• Reverse Engineering, Reengineering
• Reliability Modeling and Analysis
• Middleware Design Techniques
• Software Development in the next generation networks
• Data Mining and Knowledge Recovery
• Parallel and Distributed Computing
• Information Assurance
• Safety and Security in Critical Software
• Design and Process Engineering
• Mobile / Wireless Computing
• Communication Systems and Networks
• Healthcare Information Engineering
• Social Networking Technology
• Image Processing
• E-Learning technologies