ICSSP 2024: Call for Submissions

The International Conference on Software and Systems Processes (ICSSP) 2024 will be held from September 4-6, 2024, in Munich, Germany, as a hybrid event, in conjunction with the European System, Software & Service Process Improvement & Innovation (EuroSPI2) conference.

Conference Theme

The theme for ICSSP 2024 is Sustainable Development, focusing on the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted by the United Nations.

Topics

General contributions that address best emerging practices in software and systems engineering are welcome. The conference is interested in software and systems processes research that addresses sustainable development, such as:

• Poverty, hunger, and health
• Clean energy, clean water, and sanitation
• Equality, justice, peace
• Climate action
• Sustainable consumption, production, innovation, and infrastructure

Examples of topics include:

• Agile and other methods for sustainable global development
• Techniques to address bias and inclusion in software development ecosystems and software products (especially those incorporating AI and/or machine learning)
• Green software and systems engineering
• Open Science and Open Data
• Developing trust and integrity
• Processes for digital public infrastructure, FutureGov, education, food systems transformation, and energy
• Gamification of sustainable development goals
• Sustainable software development
• Processes related to distributed and hybrid working
• Cloud infrastructure and program optimization that address improved power consumption
• AI-based software engineering
• Alignment of AI with sustainable development
• Software and AI-enabled smart homes/living
• Migrating software applications and systems to more sustainable infrastructure
• Regulation for socially-critical software systems development
• Software processes to achieve better work-life balance in software engineering
• Issues related to gender, racial, or age equity in software and systems processes
• Novel applications of software/systems process engineering to physical processes

Submissions

Submissions are invited for unpublished original work in the following categories:

• Research Papers: Full Papers (10 pages + up to 2 pages of references)
• Experience Papers: Full Papers (10 pages + up to 2 pages of references)
• Short Papers: Short Papers (5 pages including references)
• Talk Proposals: Long abstracts (2 pages)

Submission Requirements and Policies

• All submissions must conform to the ICSSP 2024 formatting and submission instructions and must not exceed the given page limits.
• All submissions must be in English.
• All submissions must be in PDF.
• Submissions must respect the ACM Policy on Authorship.
• Submissions must conform to the ACM Primary Article Template.
• LaTeX users please set document class as \documentclass[sigconf,screen,review]{acmart}.
• Submissions must be made through the ICSSP 2024 EasyChair site.

Reviewing

• All submissions will be peer-reviewed by the ICSSP 2024 program committee members.
• Reviewing for ICSSP 2024 will be subject to the ACM Peer Review Policy.

Open Science Policy

ICSSP 2024 encourages authors to submit artifact packages and/or data sets with their papers for transparency, reusability, replicability, and/or reproducibility.

Important Dates

• Submission deadline: PAST Friday, 29 March 2024 (Originally: 22 March 2024)
• Paper acceptance notification: PAST Tuesday, 7 May 2024 (Originally: 30 April 2024)
• Camera-ready copy due: PAST Friday, 14 June 2024 (Originally: 7 June 2024)
• Early registration deadline: UPDATED Tuesday, 30 July 2024
• Last day to upload conference presentation: Friday, 30 August 2024

Contact

Feel free to contact the ICSSP 2024 Program Co-Chairs, John Noll and Jil Klünder, for additional information.