SEDES 2025
(11th Software Engineering Doctoral Symposium)

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper submission: 20 June 2025

Notification: 8 July 2025 

Camera-ready: 26 July 2025

Symposium day: 3 September 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:

• Requirements Engineering

• Cloud computing and System Architecture

• Verification, Validation, and Testing

• Evolution and maintenance

• Process Improvement and Analytics

• Security and Privacy

• Green and Sustainable Computing

• Human, Ethical and  Social Aspects

• Quality in the Age of AI

We are open to include software applications in various types of platforms, including mobile and embedded solutions that fall under the eligibility conditions.

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:

1.  Title

2. Keywords (following the 2012 ACM CCS)

3. Abstract

4. Introduction

5. Research plan

a) Research goal/questions/objectives

b) Research contributions

      c) Research methods

6. State-of-the-art

7. Time plan

a) Preliminary results

b) Future work and expected results

8. References

Papers must be submitted through the EasyChair link:  https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=quatic2025 

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.

PROCEEDINGS

Accepted papers will be published in QUATIC 2025 proceedings, a Springer conference series volume, and indexed in DBLP, Google Scholar, EI-Compendex, Mathematical Reviews, SCImago, and Scopus, and also submitted for inclusion in ISI Proceedings.

SYMPOSIUM COMMITTEE

Chairs: António Rito Silva (INESC-ID, Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon, Portugal) and Maria Kechagia (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Department of Business Administration, Greece)

Program Committee:

• Ademar Aguiar (FEUP, University of Porto, Portugal)

• Claudia Raibulet (Universita' degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca , Italy)

• Dirk Riehle (FAU Erlangen, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany)

• Gleison Santos (UNIRIO, Brazil)

• João Araújo (FCT, New University of Lisbon, Portugal)

• José Maria Fernandes <DETI, University of Aveiro, Portugal>

• Helena Rodrigues (School of Engineering, University of Minho, Portugal)

• Ivan Machado (Institute of Computing, Federal University of Bahia, Brazil)

• Katerina Tzimourta (University of Ioannina, Greece)

• Marielba Zacarias (FCT, University of Algarve, Portugal)

• Mário Zenha-Rela (FCTUC, University of Coimbra, Portugal)

• Maurizio Leotta (University of Genova, Italy)

• Mohamad Kassab (Boston University, US & New York University, Abu Dhabi )

• Paula Ventura (FCT, University of Algarve, Portugal)

• Rodrigo Santos (UNIRIO, Brazil) 

• Sotirios Liaskos (York University, Canada)

• Toacy Oliveira (INSIGHT, Instituto Piaget, Almada, Portugal)

• Vítor Basto-Fernandes (ISCTE, University Institute of Lisbon, Portugal)

• Xiaofei Xie (Singapore Management University, Singapore)