AI4SE and SE4AI Exploration: A Decade Looking Back and Forward

Computer Science > Artificial Intelligence [Submitted on 17 Jun 2026] AI4SE and SE4AI Exploration: A Decade Looking Back and Forward H. Sinan Bank, Daniel R. Herber, Thomas Bradley The March 2020 INCOSE INSIGHT special issue on AI and Systems Engineering (SE) became the most downloaded issue in the publication's history and launched a research community that now draws over 250 registrants to its annual workshop. In this article, we trace the progress in AI and SE across three phases (labeled here foundational, applied, and LLM inflection) based on the authors' reading of the field's core papers, and describe our opinions of where the community has converged and where critical gaps remain. Separately, a human-AI agreement literature review leveraging both human expertise and six AI models was performed to assess the relevance of 1,712 INCOSE INSIGHT articles and 889 SERC publications. The results identify five critical research gaps and offer guidance for practitioners navigating AI adoption, assurance, and workforce transformation in SE. We share the agreement data and the AI4SE/SE4AI Explorer web application so readers can compare their own relevance judgments with the human and AI raters. Comments: 10 pages, 5 figure Subjects: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Digital Libraries (cs.DL); Systems and Control (eess.SY) Cite as: arXiv:2606.19630 [cs.AI]   (or arXiv:2606.19630v1 [cs.AI] for this version)   https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2606.19630 Focus to learn more Submission history From: Hasan Bank [view email] [v1] Wed, 17 Jun 2026 22:19:15 UTC (375 KB) Access Paper: HTML (experimental) view license Current browse context: cs.AI < prev   |   next > new | recent | 2026-06 Change to browse by: cs cs.DL cs.SY eess eess.SY References & Citations NASA ADS Google Scholar Semantic Scholar Export BibTeX Citation Bookmark Bibliographic Tools Bibliographic and Citation Tools Bibliographic Explorer Toggle Bibliographic Explorer (What is the Explorer?) Connected Papers Toggle Connected Papers (What is Connected Papers?) Litmaps Toggle Litmaps (What is Litmaps?) scite.ai Toggle scite Smart Citations (What are Smart Citations?) Code, Data, Media Demos Related Papers About arXivLabs Which authors of this paper are endorsers? | Disable MathJax (What is MathJax?)