Abstract
The purpose of this paper is that the author, who lacks the experience in SOFT, objectively makes a novel unbiased proposal by looking back in the past twenty years and the history of SOFT. The paper analyzed SOFT from five points of view; the membership, the number of papers, the titles of special issue, information visualization based on research field network and comments on the journal of SOFT. I described some subjective proposals, which will lead SOFT to the bright future I believe lies ahead. I would be happy if my objective investigations and subjective proposals trigger widespread discussion for SOFT and the members of SOFT.
