FSE 2025

Submission timeline

• 5 Sep 2024 Abstract registration
• 12 Sep 2024 Full paper
• 14 Jan 2025 Notification

• 23 Jun 2025 Conference opens

What to submit

Format

18 pages ACM (+ 4 pages references)

Proceedings

ACM — ACM Digital Library

Reviewing

Double blind

Rebuttal

22 Nov 2024 to 26 Nov 2024

Co-located with

Co-located with ISSTA 2025.

Open science policy. Non-binary answer (includes major revision). Also tutorials, doctoral symposium, tool demos and others.

Call for papers

• As first published FSE-2025.txt · TXT · shown below

The call, as published

Reproduced verbatim from the organisers’ announcement. The conference’s own page is at conf.researchr.org/home/fse-2025.

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CALL FOR PAPERS

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We invite high-quality submissions, from both industry and academia,
describing original and unpublished results of theoretical, empirical,
conceptual, and experimental software engineering research.

Contributions should describe innovative and significant original research.
Papers describing groundbreaking approaches to emerging problems are also
welcome, as well as replication papers. Submissions that facilitate
reproducibility by using available datasets or making the described tools
and datasets publicly available are especially encouraged. For a list of
specific topics of interest, please see the end of this call.

Note #1: The Proceedings of the ACM on Software Engineering (PACMSE) Issue
FSE 2025 seeks contributions through submissions in this track. Accepted
papers will be invited for presentation at FSE 2025. Approval has been
granted by ACM in July 2023. PACMSE will be the only proceedings where
accepted research track papers will be published. Please check the FAQ
<https://conf.researchr.org/track/fse-2025/fse-2025-research-papers#FAQ>
for details.

Note #2: The steering committee has decided that starting from 2024 the
conference name will be changed to ACM International Conference on the
Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE).

Note #3: Based on the coordination among FSE, ICSE, and ASE steering
committees, the FSE conference and submission dates have been moved
earlier, similarly to FSE 2024 deadlines. The intention is for this
schedule to remain stable in the years ahead and the conference and
submission deadlines of the three large general software engineering
conferences to be spread out throughout the year.

Note #4: Submissions must follow the “ACM Policy on Authorship
<https://www.acm.org/publications/policies/new-acm-policy-on-authorship>”
released April 20, 2023, which contains policy regarding the use of
Generative AI tools and technologies, such as ChatGPT. Please also check
the ACM FAQ
<https://www.acm.org/publications/policies/frequently-asked-questions>
which describes in what situations generative AI tools can be used (with or
without acknowledgement).

Note #5: The names and list of authors as well as the title in the
camera-ready version cannot be modified from the ones in the submitted
version unless there is explicit approval from the track chairs.

Note #6: Submissions that are changing the required submission format to
gain additional space will be desk rejected. Examples of changing format
include removing the ACM Reference format and the permission to make
digital or hard copy footnotes on the first page.

# TRACKS

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This CFP refers to the Research Track of FSE 2025. For the remaining
tracks, please check the specific calls on the website:
https://conf.researchr.org/home/fse-2025

# HOW TO SUBMIT

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At the time of submission, each paper should have no more than 18 pages for
all text and figures, plus 4 pages for references, using the following
templates: Latex
<https://portalparts.acm.org/hippo/latex_templates/acmart-primary.zip> or Word
(Mac)
<https://dl.acm.org/pb-assets/templates/ACM_Small_v5_MAC-1614009250.docx>
or Word (Windows)
<https://dl.acm.org/pb-assets/templates/ACM_Small_v5_Windows-1614009250.docx>.
Authors using LaTeX should use the sample-acmsmall-conf.tex file (found in
the samples folder of the acmart package) with the acmsmall option. We also
strongly encourage the use of the review, screen, and anonymous options as
well. In summary, you want to use:
\documentclass[acmsmall,screen,review,anonymous]{acmart}. Papers may be
submitted using numeric citations, but final versions of accepted papers
must use the author-year format for citations. It is a single-column page
layout. Submissions that do not comply with the above instructions will be
desk rejected without review. Papers must be submitted electronically
through the FSE 2025 submission site:

https://fse2025.hotcrp.com

Each submission will be reviewed by at least three members of the program
committee. The review process is that the initial output can be accept,
reject or major revision. When the initial output of the three reviews is
major revision, authors will have an opportunity to address the reviewers’
requests during a 6-week major revision period. Such requests may include
additional experiments or new analyses of existing results; major rewriting
of algorithms and explanations; clarifications, better scoping, and
improved motivations. The revised submission must be accompanied by a response
letter, where the authors explain how they addressed each concern expressed
by the reviewers. The same reviewers who requested major revisions will
then assess whether the revised submission satisfies their requests
adequately.

Submissions will be evaluated on the basis of originality, importance of
contribution, soundness, evaluation (if relevant), quality of presentation,
and appropriate comparison to related work. Some papers may have more than
three reviews, as PC chairs may solicit additional reviews based on factors
such as reviewer expertise and strong disagreement between reviewers. The
program committee as a whole will make final decisions about which
submissions to accept for publication.

In addition to declaring the topics which are relevant for their
submissions, authors will be asked to declare the research methods employed
in their submissions. This will enable us to ensure reviewer expertise both
for research methods and topics. For full definitions of the research
methods, see the SIGSOFT Empirical Standards
<https://acmsigsoft.github.io/EmpiricalStandards/docs/>.

# DOUBLE-ANONYMOUS REVIEW PROCESS

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In order to ensure the fairness of the reviewing process, the FSE 2025
Research Papers Track will employ a double-anonymous review process, where
reviewers do not know the identity of authors, and authors do not know the
identity of external reviewers. The papers submitted must not reveal the
authors’ identities in any way:

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   Authors should leave out author names and affiliations from the body of
   their submission.
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   Authors should ensure that any citation to related work by themselves is
   written in third person, that is, “the prior work of XYZ” as opposed to
   “our prior work”.
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   Authors should not include URLs to author-revealing sites (tools,
   datasets). Authors are still encouraged to follow open science principles
   and submit replication packages, see more details on the open science
   policy below.
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   Authors should anonymize author-revealing company names but instead
   provide general characteristics of the organizations involved needed to
   understand the context of the paper.
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   Authors should ensure that paper acknowledgements do not reveal the
   origin of their work.
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   While authors have the right to upload preprints on ArXiV or similar
   sites, they should avoid specifying that the manuscript was submitted to
   FSE 2025.
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   During review, authors should not publicly use the submission title.

The double-anonymous process used this year is “heavy”, i.e., the paper
anonymity will be maintained during all reviewing and discussion periods.
In case of major revision, authors must therefore maintain anonymity in
their response letter and must provide no additional information that could
be author-revealing.

To facilitate double-anonymous reviewing, we recommend the authors to
postpone publishing their submitted work on arXiv or similar sites until
after the notification. If the authors have uploaded to arXiv or similar,
they should avoid specifying that the manuscript was submitted to FSE 2025.

Authors with further questions on double-anonymous reviewing are encouraged
to contact the program chairs by email. Papers that do not comply with the
double-anonymous review process will be desk-rejected.

# SUBMISSION POLICIES

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The authors must follow the “ACM Policy on Authorship” released April 20,
2023 and its accompanying FAQ including the following points:

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   “Generative AI tools and technologies, such as ChatGPT, may not be
   listed as authors of an ACM published Work. The use of generative AI tools
   and technologies to create content is permitted but must be fully disclosed
   in the Work. For example, the authors could include the following statement
   in the Acknowledgements section of the Work: ChatGPT was utilized to
   generate sections of this Work, including text, tables, graphs, code, data,
   citations, etc.). If you are uncertain about the need to disclose the use
   of a particular tool, err on the side of caution, and include a disclosure
   in the acknowledgements section of the Work.”
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   “If you are using generative AI software tools to edit and improve the
   quality of your existing text in much the same way you would use a typing
   assistant like Grammarly to improve spelling, grammar, punctuation,
   clarity, engagement or to use a basic word processing system to correct
   spelling or grammar, it is not necessary to disclose such usage of these
   tools in your Work.”

Please read the full policy and FAQ.

Papers submitted for consideration to FSE should not have been already
published elsewhere and should not be under review or submitted for review
elsewhere during the reviewing period. Specifically, authors are required
to adhere to the ACM Policy and Procedures on Plagiarism
<http://www.acm.org/publications/policies/plagiarism_policy> and the ACM
Policy on Prior Publication and Simultaneous Submissions
<http://www.acm.org/publications/policies/simultaneous-submissions>.

To prevent double submissions, the chairs might compare the submissions
with related conferences that have overlapping review periods. The double
submission restriction applies only to refereed journals and conferences,
not to unrefereed forums (e.g. arXiv.org). To check for plagiarism issues,
the chairs might use external plagiarism detection software.

All publications are subject to the ACM Author Representations policy
<https://www.acm.org/publications/policies/roles-and-responsibilities>.

By submitting your article to an ACM Publication, you are hereby
acknowledging that you and your co-authors are subject to all ACM
Publications Policies <https://www.acm.org/publications/policies/toc>,
including ACM’s new Publications Policy on Research Involving Human
Participants and Subjects
<https://www.acm.org/publications/policies/research-involving-human-participants-and-subjects>
.

Alleged violations to any of the above policies will be reported to ACM for
further investigation and may result in a full retraction of your paper, in
addition to other potential penalties, as per the ACM Publications Policies.

Please ensure that you and your co-authors obtain an ORCID ID, so you can
complete the publishing process if your paper is accepted. ACM has been
involved in ORCID from the start and they have recently made a commitment
to collect ORCID IDs from all published authors. ACM is committed to
improve author discoverability, ensure proper attribution and contribute to
ongoing community efforts around name normalization; your ORCID ID will
help in these efforts.

The authors of accepted papers are invited and strongly encouraged to
attend the conference to present their work. Attendance at the event is not
mandatory for publication. Authors also have the option of not presenting
their work at the conference, in which case they do not need to register.

# IMPORTANT DATES

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All dates are 23:59:59 AoE (UTC-12h)

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   Paper registration: September 5, 2024 (to register a paper, paper title,
   abstract, author list, and some additional metadata are required; title and
   abstract must contain sufficient information for effective bidding;
   registrations containing empty or generic title and abstract may be dropped)
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   Full paper submission: September 12, 2024
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   Author response: November 22-26, 2024
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   Initial notification: January 14, 2024 (long discussion period due to
   year-end holidays)
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   Revised manuscript submissions (major revisions only): February 25, 2025
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   Final notification for major revisions: April 1, 2025
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   Camera ready: April 24, 2025

The official publication date is the date the journal issue is made
available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may be as early as July 1,
2025. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent
filings related to published work. Please also note that the names and list
of authors as well as the title in the camera-ready version cannot be
modified from the ones in the submitted version unless there is explicit
approval from the track chairs.

# OPEN SCIENCE POLICY

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The research track of FSE has introduced an open science policy. Openness
in science is key to fostering scientific progress via transparency,
reproducibility, and replicability. The steering principle is that all
research results should be accessible to the public, if possible, and that
empirical studies should be reproducible. In particular, we actively
support the adoption of open data and open source principles and encourage
all contributing authors to disclose (anonymized and curated) data to
increase reproducibility and replicability.

Upon submission to the research track, authors are asked to make a
replication package available to the program committee (via upload of
supplemental material or a link to a private or public repository) or to
comment on why this is not possible or desirable. Furthermore, authors are
asked to indicate whether they intend to make their data publicly available
upon acceptance. We ask authors to provide a supporting statement on the
availability of a replication package (or lack thereof) in their submitted
papers in a section named Data Availability after the Conclusion section.
Be careful that such statements continue to maintain author anonymity. For
more details, see the FSE open science policy
<https://conf.researchr.org/track/fse-2025/fse-2025-open-science-policy>.

Authors of accepted papers will be given an opportunity (and encouragement)
to submit their data and tools to the separate FSE’25 artifact evaluation
committee.

# TOPICS OF INTEREST

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Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

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   Artificial intelligence and machine learning for software engineering
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   Autonomic computing
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   Debugging and fault localization
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   Dependability, safety, and reliability
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   Distributed and collaborative software engineering
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   Embedded software, safety-critical systems, and cyber-physical systems
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   Empirical software engineering
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   Human and social aspects of software engineering
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   Human-computer interaction
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   Mining software repositories
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   Mobile development
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   Model checking
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   Model-driven engineering
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   Parallel, distributed, and concurrent systems
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   Performance engineering
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   Program analysis
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   Program comprehension
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   Program repair
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   Program synthesis
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   Programming languages
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   Recommendation systems
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   Requirements engineering
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   Search-based software engineering
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   Services, components, and cloud
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   Software architectures
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   Software engineering education
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   Software engineering for machine learning and artificial intelligence
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   Software evolution
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   Software processes
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   Software security
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   Software testing
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   Software traceability
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   Symbolic execution
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   Tools and environments


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