JDDAT menyambut kiriman berkualitas tinggi, asli, dan sebelumnya tidak dipublikasikan dalam teori, praktik, dan aplikasi dari semua aspek penemuan pengetahuan dan penambangan data. Topik yang diutamakan adalah sebagai berikut: Advanced Topics in Software Engineering Data Mining Applications Data Mining in Modeling, Visualization, Personalization and Recommendation Data Mining Systems and Platforms, Efficiency, Scalability and Privacy Embedded System and Software Foundations, Algorithms, Models, and Theory Knowledge Processing Knowledge-based Systems and Formal Methods Languages and Formal Methods Managing Software Projects Mining Text, Semi-Structured, Spatio-Temporal, Streaming, Graph, Web, Multimedia Multimedia and Visual Software Engineering Quality Management Search Engines and Information Retrieval Software Engineering Decision Making Software Engineering Practice Software Maintenance and Testing Software Process Web Engineering Web-based Education Systems and Learning Applications