SEDES 2025
(11th Software Engineering Doctoral Symposium)

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper submission: 20 June 2025

Notification: 8 July 2025

Camera-ready: 26 July 2025

GOAL AND SCOPE

The goal of the SEDES doctoral symposium is to provide PhD students in software engineering with an environment in which they can present and discuss their work, receive constructive feedback and suggestions from established faculty members, peers, and network with other researchers in the field. Besides being an opportunity to gather the community of researchers in software engineering, both in academic or industrial settings, it represents a forum to publicise the research work with the goal of looking for collaborations and/or (industrial) applications.

TARGET AUDIENCE

We invite PhD students who have still some time to benefit from the discussion in the Doctoral Symposium before submitting their dissertation, but who have already settled on a thesis topic. Student research areas include software engineering or related fields such as computer science and information systems.

TOPICS

PhD students are encouraged to submit proposal covering quality approaches in relation to at least one of the knowledge areas defined in SWEBOK, the Guide to the Software Engineering Body of Knowledge (http://www.swebok.org). Examples of these include, but are not limited to:

Software processes (including both formal and agile approaches, and such topics as process definition, improvement, institutionalization,...)
Software development and tools (including use of tools in the automation namely in testing, virtualization and continuous delivery scenarios) Software architecture in software engineering ( including impact of architectural decisions at framework/process level in terms of quality attributes)
Systems and Software quality (including frameworks and techniques such as peer reviews, testing techniques...)
People issues in software and systems engineering (software project management, documentation, adoption of SE processes and tools)
Software and systems monitoring and maintenance (including enterprise and/or IoT systems, local, system and organizational strategies)
Use of COTS and software integration (including the use of existing commercial and open source components, as well as integration in a wider enterprise context,...)
Human-Computer Interaction and User Experience
Ubiquitous systems in software engineering (including adaptations in SE processes, build chain)

We are open to include software applications in various types of platforms, including mobile and embedded solutions that fall under the eligibility conditions. Other works within the scope of at least one of the knowledge areas defined in SWEBOK, the Guide to the Software Engineering Body of Knowledge (http://www.swebok.org) are also admissible in SEDES.

PhD students are also encouraged to submit proposals that include software applications in various types of open-source platforms, such as GitHub, Zenodo, etc.

SUBMISSIONS

Submissions should be in English, at least 6 pages and not exceeding 8 pages including references (LCNS format). Submissions should be coauthored by the PhD student only. Overall, submissions should clearly describe the topic to be addressed and its relevance. Submissions should comply to the following template:

Title
Keywords (following the 2012 ACM CCS)
Abstract
Introduction
Research plan

a) Research goal/questions/objectives

b) Research contributions

c) Research methods

State-of-the-art
Time plan

a) Preliminary results

b) Future work and expected results

References

REVIEW PROCESS

At least three SEDES PC members will blind-review each submission, focusing on the quality, maturity and clarity of the ongoing research work, both in terms of scope delimitation and problem relevance, adequacy of the adopted methodology, results significance and their validation, technical writing style, etc. Accepted papers are expected to submit a camera-ready version of the paper that takes into account the comments and suggestions provided by the reviewers.