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Call for Papers: ISSRE 2025 (São Paulo / Brazil) - The 36th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering

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ISSRE 2025
The 36th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering
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October 21-24, 2025

São Paulo, Brazil

https://issre.net



Scope

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ISSRE (International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering) is

the leading conference on software reliability and it focuses on

approaches, techniques, and tools for assessing, predicting, and

improving the reliability, safety, and security of software systems.


IMPORTANT NOTE: ISSRE 2025 is introducing ***Early Decisions***.

At the beginning of the author response period we will notify the

authors with the following outcomes: "Accept" if reviewers do not

require any clarification and are happy with the current state of the

paper; "Reject" if the reviewers agree that the authors’ response is

unlikely to alter their evaluation; "Response Recommended" if

reviewers have explicit questions that clarify some aspects of the

paper, and the decision Accept/Reject is postponed.



Research Track

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The research track at ISSRE 2025 invites high-quality submissions of

technical research papers describing original and unpublished results

exploring new scientific ideas, contributing new evidence to

established research directions, or reflecting on practical

experience. Specifically, ISSRE solicits submissions in three

categories: (1) full research regular (REG) papers, (2) practical

experience reports (PER), and (3) tools and artefacts (TAR) papers.


Papers will be assessed with criteria appropriate to each category.


- **REG papers** should describe a novel contribution to the

  reliability of software systems. Novelty should be argued via

  concrete evidence and appropriate positioning within the state of

  the art. REG papers are also expected to clearly explain the

  validation process and its limitations.


- **PER papers** should provide an in-depth exposition of practical

  experiences ideally performed by a collaboration of researchers and

  industry practitioners. The key contribution of these papers should

  be lessons learned from the application of known research tools and

  methods related to ISSRE topics, or new knowledge acquired through

  empirical studies performed according to various research

  methodologies. Negative results are welcome, e.g., discussing where

  or why current research cannot be applied in an industrially

  relevant context.


- **TAR papers** should describe a new tool or artifact. Tool-focused

  TAR papers must present either a new tool or novel and substantial

  extensions to an existing tool. They should include a description of

  (i) the theoretical foundations, (ii) the design and implementation

  aspects, and (iii) experiments with realistic case studies. Making

  the tool publicly available is strongly encouraged. Artifact-focused

  TAR papers should cover (i) a working copy of the software and (ii)

  experimental data sets.


The ISSRE conference encourages authors of research papers to follow

the principles of transparency, reproducibility, and replicability.

Authors are encouraged to disclose data to increase reproducibility

and replicability. Should the paper be accepted, the authors will have

the opportunity (and are encouraged to) submit artifacts to the

Artifact Evaluation (AE) track, to enhance the reproducibility and

quality of your research. By submitting your artifacts, you not only

contribute to the progress of our field but also stand a chance to

earn badges that will be displayed on your papers in the conference

proceedings, showcasing the credibility and rigor of your work.


At least one author of every accepted paper is required to make a full

author registration and present at the conference physically in São

Paulo.



Special Issue

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Special issue Authors of accepted papers will be invited to submit an

extended version of their work to a special issue of the Empirical

Software Engineering (EMSE) journal. The Call for Paper will be

available soon.



Important Deadlines

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(Anywhere on Earth)



Abstract submission deadline: April 28th, 2025

   Paper submission deadline: May 5th, 2025

             Early decisions: June 30th, 2025

      Author rebuttal period: June 30th-July 5th, 2025

     Notification to authors: July 18th, 2025

         Camera ready papers: August 19th, 2025



Paper Categories

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Submissions can be made in one of the following:


- REG papers: 12 pages (including references).

- PER papers: 12 pages (including references).

- TAR papers: 6 - 10 pages (including references).


Papers that exceed the number of pages for that submission category

will be rejected without review.



Topics of Interest

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Topics of interest include development, analysis methods and models

throughout the software development lifecycle, and are not limited to:


- Dependability attributes (i.e., security, safety, maintainability,

  survivability, resilience, robustness) impacting software reliability

- Reliability threats, i.e. faults (defects, bugs), errors, failures

- Reliability means (fault prevention, fault removal, fault tolerance,

  fault forecasting)

- Software testing and formal methods

- Software fault localization, debugging, root-cause analysis

- Metrics, measurements and threat estimation for reliability

  prediction and the interplay with safety/security

- Reliability of autonomous systems and (self-)adaptive systems

- Reliability of AI-based systems, AI for Reliability Engineering

- Reliability of Large Language/Foundational Model (LLM) and

  LLM for software reliability

- Reliability of software services and Software as a Service (SaaS)

- Reliability of model-based and auto-generated software

- Reliability of open-source software

- Reliability of software dealing with Big Data

- Reliability of model-based and auto-generated software

- Reliability of green and sustainable systems

- Reliability of mobile systems

- Reliability of software within specific technological spaces (e.g.,

  Internet of Things, Cloud, Semantic Web/Web 3.0, Virtualization,

  Blockchain, networks softwarization, 5G/6G, edge-to-cloud computing)

- Normative/regulatory/ethical spaces about software reliability

- Societal aspects of software reliability



Anonymizing Rules & Formatting Rules

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Authors shall anonymize their papers.


For a complete description of the guidelines and LaTeX/Word templates:

https://issre.github.io/2025/calls_cfp-research.html



Paper Submission

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Papers are submitted via EasyChair at the following URL:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=issre2025



Submissions will be reviewed by the program committee through a

**double-blind reviewing process,** with a limited use of outside

referees. Papers will be held in full confidence during the reviewing

process, but papers accompanied by nondisclosure agreement forms are

not acceptable and will be rejected without review.


Changes in the number and order of authors will not be allowed after

the paper acceptance.


Authors must anonymize their submissions according to the guidelines

given above. Submissions violating the formatting and anonymization

rules will be desk rejected without review. There will be no

extensions for reformatting.



Review Process and Author Response

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After the papers have been reviewed, but before the Program

Committee/Board meeting, the reviews will be made available to the

authors to respond to any factual errors in the reviews. Rebuttals do

not include additional information about the research or a submission

of an updated or revised paper. Author responses will be made

available to all PC/PB members before the paper is discussed for

selection in the PC/PB meeting. The submission website will include

rebuttal guidelines.


***NEW IN 2025: Early Decisions***

To reduce the authors and reviewers burden of unnecessary

writing/reading of authors responses, ISSRE 2025 is introducing early

decisions:


- If reviewers decide that a paper can be accepted in its current

  state without requiring any further input from the authors, the

  authors will receive an “Accept” decision at the beginning of the

  author response period and will not be required to submit a

  response.

- If a paper is perceived to be in a highly deficient state by the

  reviewers, leading them to conclude that the authors’ response is

  unlikely to alter their evaluation, the authors will receive a

  “Reject” decision at the beginning of the author response period and

  will not be required to submit a response.

- All other papers will receive a “Response Recommended” notification

  at the beginning of the author response period. As customary, it is

  still up to the authors to decide if they want to submit an author

  response.


This approach ensures that author responses are primarily reserved for

cases with some controversy or where the reviewers have specific and

pertinent inquiries to be addressed.



Best Research Paper Award

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ISSRE is pleased to announce the Best Research Paper Award, attributed

every year to the best paper in the Research Track.



Conference Proceedings

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The conference proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society

Conference Publishing Services (CPS). Papers presented at the

conference will be submitted for inclusion into IEEE Xplore and to all

of the A&I (abstracting and indexing) partners (such as the EI

Compendex).



Organization

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Research PC Chairs:


- Catia Trubiani

  Gran Sasso Science Institute (GSSI), Italy

  https://cs.gssi.it/catia.trubiani/


- Yulei Sui

  University of New South Wales, Sydney

  https://yuleisui.github.io/


For additional information, the conference website is available at:

https://issre.net/