APSEC 2025: Call for Papers

The 32nd Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC 2025) will be held in Macao, China from December 2-5, 2025.

APSEC is a leading regional conference that gathers researchers and practitioners from academia, industry, and government to exchange knowledge and best practices in software engineering.

Technical Track: Call for Papers

The APSEC 2025 technical research track invites high-quality contributions describing original results in the discipline of software engineering.

Solicited Topics:

• Tools and processes
  • Agile processes
  • DevOps and Container
  • Configuration Management and Deployment
  • Software Engineering Process and Standards
• Requirements and Design
  • Service-oriented Computing
  • Component-based Software Engineering
  • Cooperative, Distributed, and Global Software Engineering
  • Software Architecture, Modeling and Design
  • Middleware, Frameworks, and APIs
  • Software Product-line Engineering
• Testing and Analysis
  • Testing, Verification, and Validation
  • Program Analysis
  • Program Synthesis
  • Program Repairs
• Formal Aspects of Software Engineering
  • Formal Methods
  • Model-driven and Domain-specific Engineering
• Human Factors and Social Aspects of Software Engineering
  • Software Comprehension, Visualization, and Traceability
  • Software for Green and Sustainable Technologies
• AI and Software Engineering
  • AI for Software Engineering
  • Software Engineering for AI
  • Search-based Software Engineering
• Dependability, Safety, and Reliability
  • Reliability, availability, and safety
  • Performance
  • Vulnerability detection to enhance software security
• Software Maintenance and Evolution
  • Refactoring
  • Reverse Engineering
  • Software Reuse
  • Software Project Management
  • Debugging, Defect Prediction, and Fault Localization
• Software Repository Mining and Data Analytics

APSEC 2025 welcomes submissions addressing topics in a variety of application domains, including mobile, cloud, blockchains, embedded, and cyber-physical systems.

Evaluation Criteria

Technical research papers must not exceed 12 pages (including references). Submissions will be evaluated by at least three program committee members.

Submission Instructions

Submitted papers must have been neither previously accepted for publication nor concurrently submitted for review in another journal, book, conference, or workshop.

All submissions must be in English and must come in A4 paper size PDF format and conform, at the time of submission, to the IEEE Conference Proceedings Formatting Guidelines (title in 24pt font and full text in 10pt font, LaTeX users must use \\documentclass[10pt,conference]{IEEEtran} without including the compsoc or compsocconf option). Also, papers must comply with the IEEE Policy on Authorship. Submissions must be submitted electronically in PDF before the due date via HotCRP.

The Chairs reserve the right to reject submissions (without reviews) that are not in compliance or out of scope for the conference.

Double Blind Policy

IMPORTANT: The APSEC 2025 technical research track will use a double-blind reviewing process, which means that submissions must not reveal the authors’ identities. The authors must make every effort to honor the double-blind reviewing process.

• Omit authors’ names and institutions from your title page.
• References to authors’ own related work must be in the third person.
• You may decide to anonymize the reference itself at submission time.
• Do not include acknowledgements of people, grants, organizations, etc. that would give away your identity.
• In general, aim to reduce the risk of accidental unblinding.
• Avoid revealing the institution affiliations of authors or at which the work was performed.
• Please avoid linking directly to code repositories or tool deployments which can reveal your identity. Instead of doing so, please consider using services such as zenodo.org, figshare.com, which provide DOIs and support anonymous and semi-anonymous methods of archiving software and datasets.

Submission Link

Papers must be submitted through HotCRP: https://apsec25.hotcrp.com

Important Dates

What	Track	When
Abstract Deadline (Optional)	Technical Track	July 13, 2025
Paper Deadline	Technical Track	July 20, 2025
Author Notification	Technical Track, ERA	September 20, 2025
Camera Ready Deadline	Technical Track, ERA	October 20, 2025
Submission Deadline	ERA	July 31, 2025
Submission Deadline	SEIP	August 7, 2025
Submission deadline	Journal-First Track	August 15, 2025
Submission deadline	Tutorials	August 23, 2025
Workshop Proposal Submission	Workshops	September 5, 2025
Author notification	Journal-First Track	September 13, 2025
Abstract Deadline	Tool Demonstration	September 14, 2025
Submission Deadline	Doctoral Symposium	September 17, 2025
Submission Deadline	Tool Demonstration	September 21, 2025
Submission Deadline	Student Research Competition	September 21, 2025
Notification	Tutorials	September 25, 2025
Author Notification	SEIP	September 26, 2025
Acceptance Notification	Doctoral Symposium	September 28, 2025
Acceptance Notification	Tool Demonstration	October 17, 2025
Acceptance Notification	Student Research Competition	October 17, 2025
Notification	Workshops	October 19, 2025
Camera Ready	SEIP	October 23, 2025
Camera Ready	Tool Demonstration	October 31, 2025
Camera Ready	Student Research Competition	October 31, 2025
Conference	Journal-First Track	Dec 2 - Dec 5, 2025

Contact

Jacky Keung and Eunjong Choi
APSEC 2025 Program Co-Chairs

Preprint Policy

Authors submitting papers to APSEC 2025 must comply with the following guidelines regarding the handling of non-anonymized versions.

Authors are permitted to make a non-anonymized version of their paper publicly available before the anonymity period.

Upon acceptance and publication of a paper by IEEE, authors must update any publicly available non-anonymized version of the paper.