FSEN 2025 - Fundamentals of Software Engineering

Research Papers: Call for papers

Authors are invited to submit full papers (up to 15 pages excluding references) describing original research, applications and tools; or short papers (up to 6 pages excluding references) describing ongoing research or new ideas that have not yet been fully validated. Both categories of papers must be submitted electronically in PDF using the online submission process via the Easychair conference system at the following link: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fsen2025.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

• Models of programs and systems
• Software specification, validation and verification
• Software architectures and their description languages
• Object and multi-agent systems
• Coordination and feature interaction
• Integration of formal and informal methods
• Integration of different formal methods
• Component-based development
• Service-oriented development
• Model checking and theorem proving
• Software and hardware verification
• CASE tools and tool integration
• Applications to industrial cases

Contributions must be written in English, should be formatted according to the Springer LNCS style (LaTeX2e Proceedings Templates) that can be found here and not exceed the page limit for the category (including figures and references).

Each submission will be thoroughly reviewed by at least three reviewers considering scientific originality, significance, relevance to the FSEN conference, technical soundness, clarity, self-containedness and discussion of appropriate related work.

The reviewers will be asked to rate the submissions and evaluate whether they can be accepted as: full paper or short paper for the LNCS proceedings.
The authors of the poster papers will only present their papers at the conference.

Papers accepted in the first 2 categories will be invited for presentation at the conference. Posters will be illustrated by the authors in separate poster sessions.

Submissions are required to report on original, unpublished work and should not be submitted simultaneously for publication elsewhere (cf. IFIP’s Author Code of Conduct).

Proceedings

The post-proceedings of FSEN 2025 will be published by Springer Verlag in the LNCS series. Following the tradition of FSEN, we plan to have a special issue of the Science of Computer Programming journal devoted to FSEN 2025 (to be confirmed). After the conference a selection of papers will be invited for this special issue. The invited papers should be extended and will undergo a new round of review by an international program committee. Please see the websites of previous editions of FSEN for more information on post-proceedings and special issues related to those editions.

Note from Springer: Authors should consult Springer’s authors’ guidelines and use their proceedings templates for the preparation of their papers. Springer encourages authors to include their ORCIDs in their papers. In addition, the corresponding author of each paper, acting on behalf of all of the authors of that paper, must complete and sign a Consent-to-Publish form. The corresponding author signing the copyright form should match the corresponding author marked on the paper. Once the files have been sent to Springer, changes relating to the authorship of the papers cannot be made.