Prof. Dr. Hironori Washizaki has led the evolution project of the IEEE Computer Society's Guide to the Software Engineering Body of Knowledge (SWEBOK Guide). This talk first provides an overview of the SWEBOK Guide and its latest updates, including a new topic, AI and Software Engineering (SE). Then, as a part of AI and SE, the talk presents AI software engineering, with a particular focus on a multi-view modeling framework and engineering patterns for Machine Learning and LLM systems (including design patterns, assurance argument patterns, and prompt engineering patterns), with ML pipeline integration, to address multi-dimensional aspects and the probabilistic nature of ML/LLM, and its experimentative development approach. There is often a gap between high-level abstract concepts and principles and low-level concrete tools and cases in AI software engineering. Patterns encapsulating recurrent problems and corresponding solutions under particular contexts and pattern languages as organized and coherent patterns can fill such gaps, resulting in a common "language" for various stakeholders involved in often interdisciplinary AI systems development.
Professor and Associate Dean of Research Promotion Division
Waseda University, Japan
President, IEEE Computer Society
Prof. Dr. Hironori Washizaki is a Professor and the Associate Dean of the Research Promotion Division at Waseda University in Tokyo and a Visiting Professor at the National Institute of Informatics. He also works as an Outside Director of eXmotion. He currently serves as the IEEE Computer Society 2025 President. He has led software engineering research and ICT professional and educational activities, including developing the IEEE-CS's Guide to the Software Engineering Body of Knowledge (SWEBOK Guide). He has led many academia-industry joint research and large-funded projects in software design, reuse, traceability, quality assurance, and machine learning engineering. Recent achievements include IoT design patterns and machine learning design patterns. He leads a professional IoT/AI/DX education project called SmartSE. http://www.washi.cs.waseda.ac.jp/
