PROFES 2025: Call for Papers

The 26th International Conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement (PROFES 2025) will be held from Mon 1 to Wed 3 December 2025 in Salerno, Italy.

PROFES conferences encourage the exchange of ideas that help explore, understand, and model phenomena in software engineering from the point of view of process-product relationships. PROFES provides topics that are up-to-date, important, and interesting to both practitioners and researchers.

Topics of Interest

The topics of interest include, but are not restricted to:

• Process modeling, management, assessment and improvement
• Value- and feedback-driven software development, agile and lean methods and processes
• Processes for (digital) software product innovation
• Software analytics and any empirical research with actionable insights on software products and processes
• Predictive models for software engineering tasks
• Infrastructure and processes for iterative or incremental software delivery
• Continuous deployment and release planning
• Product quality models for software, systems, and services
• Project management techniques, global and/or distributed software development
• Software Engineering processes for AI-enabled systems, including MLOps
• AI and Data-Driven Techniques as tools for Software Process Improvement (AI4SE)
• Methods for developing cloud-based systems and services, including monolithic to cloud-native migration
• Software development for Cyber-Physical Systems
• Processes and methods for COTS and open-source development
• Service engineering processes and software business models

Submission Types

• Research Papers: Submissions of full papers (max. 16 pages) related to all the topics of interest are invited. Full papers that address collaborations between industry and academia, case studies as well as experience reports on any of the conference themes are particularly welcome. Secondary studies are also encouraged, provided they contain a synthesis of findings.

Important Dates (AoE - UTC-12h)

• Submission: June 13th June 27th, 2025 (Extended Deadline)
• Notification: August 5th, 2025
• Camera-ready: August 26th, 2025

Submission Guidelines

• Submitted papers must conform to the Springer LNCS author guidelines.
• All papers must be written in English and submitted in PDF format through EasyChair.
• The EasyChair submission web page for all contributions in PROFES 2025 is: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=profes2025.
• All submitted papers will undergo a rigorous single-anonymous peer review process involving at least three reviewers.

Conference Attendance Expectation

PROFES 2025 will be an in-person event. If a submission is accepted, at least one author must register for the conference and present the paper.

Tracks

• Research Papers
• Short Papers and Posters
• Industry Papers
• Workshops and Tutorials
• Doctoral Symposium

Workshops

• International Workshop on Analytics for Software Product and Process Improvement (aSsPPI 2025)
• Promoting and Dealing with Advanced Technology in Healthcare (PATH 2025)
• Quality Evaluation of ML-based Software Systems (Quemales 2025)