For JSS's full CfP including information on Special Issues, Industry, Trends, and Journal First tracks please continue to read for further details. 

The Journal of Systems and Software publishes papers covering all aspects of software engineering. All articles should provide evidence to support their claims, e.g. through empirical studies, simulation, formal proofs or other types of validation. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Methods and tools for software requirements, design, architecture, verification and validation, testing, maintenance and evolution
Agile, model-driven, service-oriented, open source and global software development
Approaches for cloud/fog/edge computing and virtualized systems
Human factors and management concerns of software development
Artificial Intelligence, data analytics and big data applied in software engineering
Metrics and evaluation of software development resources
DevOps, continuous integration, build and test automation
Business and economic aspects of software development processes
Software Engineering education


The journal welcomes reports of practical experience for all of these topics, as well as replication studies and studies with negative results. The journal appreciates the submission of systematic literature reviews, mapping studies and meta-analyses. However, these should report interesting and important results, rather than merely providing statistics on publication year, venue etc. 



In addition to regular papers, JSS features two special tracks (In Practice, New Ideas and Trends Papers), as well as special issues."


In Practice is exclusively focused on work that increases knowledge transfer from industry to research. It accepts: (1) experience reports, showing what actually happens in practice (contrasted to theory), illustrating the challenges (and pain) that practitioners face, detailing how research results fair in realistic settings, and presenting lessons learned; (2) problem descriptions with significant details on the context, underlying causes and explicit symptoms of the problem, the technical and organizational impact of the problem, as well as relevant research questions for researchers to investigate, and finally (3) tool-focused papers discussing the usability, scalability, engineering, and other challenges faced when implementing a research concept. Submissions to this track should include at least one co-author from industry and be within scope of the journal's above topics of interest. In addition, submissions will be evaluated through industry-appropriate criteria for their merit in reporting useful industrial experience; not in terms of academic novelty of research results. 

New Ideas and Trends Papers
New ideas, especially those related to new research trends, emerge quickly. To accommodate timely dissemination thereof, JSS introduces the New Ideas and Trends Paper (NITP). NITPs should focus on the systems/software engineering aspects of new emerging areas, including: the internet of things, big data, cloud computing, software ecosystems, cyber-physical systems, green/sustainable systems, continuous software engineering, crowdsourcing, and the like. We distinguish two types of NITPs:
A short paper that discusses a single contribution to a specific new trend or a new idea.
A long paper that provides a survey of a specific trend, as well as a (possibly speculative) outline of a solution.
NITPs are not required to be fully validated, but preliminary results that endorse the merit of the proposed ideas are welcomed. 

We anticipate revisiting specific new trends periodically, for instance through reflection or progress reports.
New Ideas and Trend Papers warrant speedy publication.

Special Issues proposals
To submit a proposal for a special issue, please contact the Special Issues Editor Prof. W.K. Chan 

Journal First Initiative 
Authors of JSS accepted papers have the opportunity to present their work in those conferences that offer a Journal First track. Using this track, researchers may take the best from two worlds: ensuring high quality in the JSS publication (thorough, multi-phase review process of a long manuscript), while getting feedback from a community of experts and fostering possible collaborations during a scientific event. 

Details may vary from conference to conference, but generally speaking, JSS papers to be presented in a Journal First track must report completely new research results or present novel contributions that significantly extend previous work. The ultimate decision to include a paper in the conference program is up to the conference chairs, not JSS. A JSS paper may be presented only once through a Journal First track. 

As of today, the list of conferences with which JSS is collaborating, or has collaborated, through a Journal First track, is: ASE, ICSME, SANER, RE, ESEM, PROFES, and APSEC.

Editor-in-Chief
P. Avgeriou
University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands
D. Shepherd
Virginia Commonwealth University Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, Charlottesville, United States
Emeritus Editor-in-Chief
H. van Vliet
Free University of Amsterdam Department of Computer Science, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Special Issues Editor
W.K. Chan
City University of Hong Kong Department of Computer Science, Kowloon, Hong KongEmail W.K. Chan
Senior Associate Editors
D-H. Bae
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology School of Computing, Daejeon, Korea, Republic of Email D-H. Bae
E. Barr
University College London, London, United Kingdom Email E. Barr
G. Bavota
University of Italian Switzerland, Lugano, Switzerland Email G. Bavota
A. Bertolino
Alessandro Faedo Institute of Science and Technology National Research Council, Pisa, Italy Email A. Bertolino
I. Crnkovic
Chalmers University of Technology Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Göteborg, Sweden Email I. Crnkovic
D. Damian
University of Victoria Department of Computer Science, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada Email D. Damian
J.C. Dueñas
Polytechnic University of Madrid Telematic Systems Engineering Department, Madrid, Spain Email J.C. Dueñas
N.A. Ernst
University of Victoria Department of Computer Science, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada Email N.A. Ernst
H.D. Karatza
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki School of Informatics, Thessaloniki, Greece Email H.D. Karatza
P. Lago
VU Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands Email P. Lago
B. Turhan, PhD
Monash University Faculty of Information Technology, Clayton, Australia Email B. Turhan, PhD
W.E. Wong
University of Texas at Dallas Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science, Richardson, Texas, United States Email W.E. Wong
Publicity Chair
P. Leitner
University of Gothenburg, Goteborg, Sweden http://philippleitner.net
Journal-First Chair
X. Franch
Polytechnic University of Catalonia Department of Service and Information System Engineering, Barcelona, Spain
Editorial Advisor
D. Spinellis
Athens University of Economics and Business Department of Management Science and Technology, Athens, Greece
Associate Editors
B. Adams
Montreal Polytechnic, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
E. Almeida
Federal University of Bahia Institute of Mathematics, SALVADOR, Brazil
S. Beecham
Lero - the Irish Software Research Centre, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland
K. Blincoe
The University of Auckland Department of Electrical Computer and Software Engineering, Auckland, New Zealand
A. Chatzigeorgiou
University of Macedonia Department of Applied Informatics, Thessaloniki, Greece
R. Hoda
The University of Auckland Department of Electrical Computer and Software Engineering, Auckland, New Zealand
S. Mcintosh
McGill University, Montréal, Quebec, Canada
L.L. Minku
University of Birmingham School of Computer Science, Birmingham, United Kingdom
M. Nagappan
University of Waterloo David R Cheriton School of Computer Science, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
M. Pinzger
Universität Klagenfurt, Software Engineering Research Group, Klagenfurt, Austria
R. Robbes
University of Chile, Santiago de Chile, Chile
J. Rubin
The University of British Columbia Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Vancouver BC, British Columbia, Canada
A Zaidman
Delft University of Technology Faculty of Electrical Engineering Mathematics and Computer Science, Delft, Netherlands
A. Zisman
The Open University Computing and Communications Department, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom
Editorial Board
L. Abeni
Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, Italy
J. Bosch
Chalmers University of Technology, Goteborg, Sweden
A. Bosu
Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, United States
M. Bruntink
Software Improvement Group, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Y. Cai
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Y.F. Cai
Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
M. Cataldo
Robert Bosch LLC Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
S. Cha
Korea University Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Seongbuk-gu, Korea, Republic of
V. Chandrasekhar
Facebook Inc, Menlo Park, California, United States
Y. Chen
Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, United States
F. Chicano
University of Málaga, Malaga, Spain
M. Ciolkowski
QAware GmbH, München, Germany
F. Cuadrado
Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom
K. Damevski
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States
M. Daneva
University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands
S. Dash
University College London, London, United Kingdom
C. Ebert
Vector Software GmbH, Stuttgart, Germany
A.R. Fasolino
University of Naples Federico II Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Napoli, Italy
A. Garcia
Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro Department of Information Technology, RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil
I. Gorton
Khoury College of Computer Sciences Seattle, Seattle, Washington, United States
L. Guan
Loughborough University, Loughborough, United Kingdom
M. Harman
Facebook London, London, United Kingdom
J.-M. Jézéquel
Institute for Research in Computer Science and Random Systems, Rennes, France
M. Kalinowski
Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil
H. Koziolek
ABB Corporate Research United States Raleigh NC, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
K. Kritikos
Foundation of Research and Technology Hellas, Irakleio, Greece
P.B. Kruchten
The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
X. Liu, PhD
Deakin University School of Information Technology - Burwood Campus, Burwood, Australia
J. Lu
Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
H. Mei
Peking University, Beijing, China
T. Menzies
North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
M. Mirakhorli
Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York, United States
R. Mirandola
Polytechnic University of Milan, Milano, Italy
TV Nguyen
University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States
F. Palomba, PhD
University of Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland
A. Serebrenik
University of Technology Eindhoven, Eindhoven, Netherlands
H. Sharp
The Open University, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom
I. Stamelos
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
K. J. Stol
University College Cork and Lero, Cork, Ireland
Ö. Ulusoy
Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey
J. Wang
National Laboratory for Parallel and Distributed Processing, China
D. Weyns
KU Leuven Association, Belgium and Linnaeus University Sweden, Belgium
U. Zdun
University of Vienna, Wien, Austria
H. Zhang, PhD
The University of Newcastle School of Electrical Engineering and Computing, Australia
T. Zimmermann
Microsoft Research, Redmond, Washington, United States