SEFM 2025: Call for Papers

The 23rd International Conference on Software Engineering and Formal Methods (SEFM 2025) will be held between 12-14 November 2025, with workshops taking place on 10-11 November 2025, in Toledo, Spain.

Overview and Scope

The conference aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia, industry and government, to advance the state of the art in formal methods, to facilitate their uptake in the software industry, and to encourage their integration within practical software engineering methods and tools.

Important Dates (AoE - UTC-12h)

• Abstract submission: June 16, 2025
• Paper submission: June 23, 2025
• Author notification: August 11, 2025
• Camera ready: August 29, 2025
• Workshops: 10-11 November 2025
• Conference: 12-14 November 2025

Topics of Interest

The topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following aspects of software engineering and formal methods:

Software Development Methods

• Formal modelling, specification, and design
• Software evolution, maintenance, re-engineering, and reuse
• Design Principles
• Programming languages
• Domain-specific languages
• Type theory
• Abstraction and refinement

Software Testing, Validation, and Verification

• Model checking, theorem proving, and decision procedures
• Testing and runtime verification
• Statistical and probabilistic analysis
• Synthesis
• Performance estimation and analysis of other non-functional properties
• Other light-weight and scalable formal methods

Security and Safety

• Security, privacy, and trust
• Safety-critical, fault-tolerant, and secure systems
• Software certification

Applications and Technology Transfer

• Service-oriented and cloud computing systems, Internet of Things
• Component, object, multi-agent and self-adaptive systems
• Real-time, hybrid, and cyber-physical systems
• Intelligent systems and machine learning
• Quantum systems
• HCI, interactive systems, and human error analysis
• Education
• Case studies, best practices, and experience reports

Paper Submission

We solicit two categories of papers:

• Regular papers: Describing original research results, case studies, or surveys, should not exceed 16 pages (excluding bibliography of at most two pages).
• Short papers: Describing original research results or case studies, maybe in an incubation phase, should not exceed 8 pages (excluding bibliography of at most one page).
• Tool papers: Describing an operational tool and its contributions should not exceed 8 pages.

Formatting and Submission

• Papers must be formatted according to the guidelines for Springer LNCS papers.
• All submissions must be original, unpublished, and not submitted concurrently for publication elsewhere.
• Papers can be submitted through Microsoft CMT: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/SEFM2025

Publication

All accepted papers will appear in the proceedings of the conference that will be published as a volume in Springer’s LNCS series.