Call for Papers

Conference Details

The 34th International Workshop on Software Measurement (IWSM) and the 19th International Conference on Software Process and Product Measurement (MENSURA) will be held in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, from October 27-28, 2025, at the University of Sharjah.

The conference proceedings will be published in the ACM International Conference Proceedings Series (ICPS).

IWSM-MENSURA is the premier international conference on software measurement, attracting leading-edge researchers, leaders, and innovators. The main goal is to share experiences, challenges, and solution approaches to facilitate technology transfers from researchers and world industry experts. The conference has a strong industry participation, focusing on the applicability of software quality and software measurement research for decision making in organizations.

Industries of Interest:

We invite papers from researchers and practitioners in all fields of software products within the following industries:

• Mining industry
• Petrochemicals and gas industry
• Banking & financial services
• Health, pharma & biotech
• Hospitality industry
• Renewal energy
• Law
• Others

Topics of Interest for Software Products Quality:

• Reliability, Security, Availability, and Safety of Software Products
• AI-based Techniques for Software Quality, Reliability, and Security
• Embedded Machine Learning and Deep Learning Models in Software Products
• Automated Software Product Testing, Verification, and Validation
• Information and Software Quality Assurance of Products
• Software product reviews, inspections and audits
• Cloud based software products quality assessment
• Intrusion detection and prevention in software products
• Software products vulnerability detection and prevention

Topics of Interest for Software Project Management & Measurement:

We are looking for papers on the state-of-the-art and the future of software measurement in support to Software Project Managers within new paradigms such as IoT, Industry 4.0, Artificial Intelligence, DevOps, Quantum software, ChatGPT, etc.

• Innovations in software projects quantitative management techniques
• Data-driven decision making
• Decision support systems based on software measurements
• Effort estimation based on early size approximation techniques
• Effort estimation for Artificial Intelligence software
• Effort estimation for Industry 4.0 software
• Empirical studies in software engineering
• Formal estimation in agile environments
• Measurement and Data Analytics in the era of Artificial Intelligence
• Measurement and estimation practices in Agile software development
• Software measurement automation
• Measurement processes and resources, e.g., Agile, model-driven, etc.
• Measurement theory for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence
• Measurement-as-a-service
• Measuring and quantifying software value
• Measuring software technical debt
• Measuring the software for Industry 4.0 projects
• Monitoring and evaluation in the era of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence
• Software portfolio sizing and estimation
• Service- and product-oriented measures
• Sizing Non-Functional Requirements (NFR)
• Sizing software ecosystems
• Software benchmarking studies
• Software measurement and effort estimation in Blockchain, Game development, Metaverse building, and other emerging technologies
• Software size approximation techniques
• Visualizations and measurement dashboards
• Software requirements sizing for quantum computers

Important Dates

1. Abstract submission: May 1st, 2025
2. Paper Submission due: May 15th, 2025
3. Notification of acceptance/rejection: June 15th, 2025
4. Final version: July 15th, 2025

Submission Guidelines

• All submissions must be done electronically in PDF format via the Easychair System for IWSM-MENSURA-2025.
• Papers must be in English.
• Full papers must not exceed 8 pages.
• Short papers must not exceed 4 pages.
• The title page must contain a short abstract.
• Paper submissions must be original contributions that have neither been published previously nor submitted to other conferences or journals.
• Authors are encouraged to adhere to the best practices of Reproducible Research (RR), by making available data and related tools.
• For each accepted paper, at least one author must register for the conference and present the paper.
• Final paper presentations must be submitted one week before the conference.

Proceedings Chairs

• Prof Adel Khelifi, Abu Dhabi University, UAE
• Dr. Kaoutar El Maghraoui, University of Columbia/IBM, USA

Organization Information

For organization details for 2025, please visit https://www.iwsm-mensura.org/2025-2/organization2025/

Venue Information

For venue details for 2025, please visit https://www.iwsm-mensura.org/2025-2/venue2025/