As your safety is our top priority and concern, the conference has added online attendance/presentation for participants in case you cannot attend the conference because of the COVID-19. Participants will benefit from registration fee reduction after choosing online attendance/presentation. Accepted papers after registration and online presentation will still be published normally. We would like to thank you for your support of the conference despite the current crisis situation. Please contact icett@iedrc.net for more information about the online presentation.

We are pleased to announce that 2020 The 4th International Conference on Software and e-Business (ICSEB 2020) will be held in Osaka, Japan during December 18-20, 2020. The event falls within the scope of the continuation of initiatives carried out by the IEDRC, its support for research and its efforts to facilitate networking opportunities among software and e-business researchers.

Software engineering professionalism initiatives resulted in the certification and licensing of software engineers in a number of countries worldwide. We are seeing increased attention to software engineering specialty areas, and many software engineering degree programs have tracks to support these specialties. On the industry side we are seeing an upheaval in software engineering as we know it. Innovations such as Cloud Computing, autonomous vehicles, drones, bioengineering, and other initiatives have made for a rapidly changing landscape. Topics such as software assurance, safety, and reliability have become increasingly important knowledge areas. We are in a global economy with a software supply chain that can extend across many countries and regions. Each one has their own regulations and laws about safety, security, and privacy. Practicing software engineers change jobs frequently, so the value of in-house training is not as clear as it once was. In 2020 we want to focus on the changes that are taking place in the field, our response to it, and our vision of how we can move forward to meet the ever-increasing demand for qualified software engineers.