13th ACM/IEEE International Workshop on Software Engineering for Systems-of-Systems and Software Ecosystems

(SESoS 2025)

The 13th International Workshop on Software Engineering for Systems-of-Systems and Software Ecosystems (SESoS 2025) provides researchers and practitioners with a forum to exchange ideas and experiences, analyze research and development issues, discuss promising solutions, and propose theoretical foundations for development and evolution of complex software-intensive systems, inspiring visions for the future of Software Engineering for Systems-of-Systems (SoS) and Software Ecosystems (SECO), as well as paving the way for a more structured community effort.

SoS have become increasingly complex and frequently used in highly distributed, dynamic, and open environments. SoS refer to evolving software systems in which constituent systems (themselves systems in their own right) cooperatively work to fulfill specific, complex missions, facing Software Engineering researchers and practitioners with substantial challenges. SECO have also become an important research topic, addressing social issues along with technical aspects of software development. SoS and SECO are closely related and naturally distributed in development teams. In both fields, distributed resources aim at reducing cost and reaching new Information Technology markets. Software Engineering-related problems and challenges are amplified and become more critical when SoS and SECO are analyzed together.

Following the successful editions of SESoS in 2013-2024, WDES in 2007-2018, and the joint editions of SESoS/WDES in 2017-2021, this year’s workshop will focus on coping with challenges and opportunities on the development and evolution of complex software-intensive systems as well as on the modeling and analysis of technological, organizational, and social solutions in this context.

Workshop History

• SESoS 2025 website
• SESoS/WDES portal

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Accepted Papers

Call for Papers

Paper Submission and Review

All submitted papers should describe original work and not be published or under review anywhere. The papers must be written in English and will be judged by at least three reviewers on the basis of their clarity, relevance, originality, and contribution.

• Research papers (at most 8 pages): describing original, substantial contributions in research and/or practice; and

• Expanded abstracts (at most 4 pages): including position papers and experience reports describing emerging results, lessons learned, open problems or novel ideas and perspectives on research.

The page limits include abstract, all figures, tables, and references. As per the new ACM policies for open-access publishing, extended abstracts will be free of Article Processing Charges (APCs), while research papers not.

All authors must use the official ACM Primary Article Template and submit their papers in PDF format through the HotCRP system. LaTeX authors must use \documentclass[sigconf,review]{acmart} in the preamble of the main file, allowing typesetting the paper in a double-column format with line numbers for easy reference by the reviewers. The following conference information also must be used:

\acmConference[SESoS 2026]{14th ACM/IEEE International Workshop on Software Engineering for Systems-of-Systems and Software Ecosystems}{April 12, 2026} {Rio de Janeiro, Brazil}

\acmYear{2026}

\copyrightyear{2026}

All submitted papers should describe original work and not have been published or under review anywhere. At least three reviewers will judge the papers based on their clarity, relevance, originality, and contribution. The review process is single-blind, i.e., author information must appear in the paper.

Accepted papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library. The publication of the accepted papers will require the registration of at least one author in SESoS 2026, as well as the oral presentation of the paper during the workshop.

All questions about ACM template should be emailed to Cristian Augusto (Proceedings Chair) - augustocristian@uniovi.es

Topics of Interest

The workshop will focus on the following (and similar) themes:

• Support to SoS development process;

• Complexity and systems thinking applied to system management and engineering of SoS and SECO;

• Platform development and governance;

• SoS and SECO modeling and analysis;

• Dynamic reconfiguration at different levels (strategic, tactical, operational) to revisit coordination mechanisms and emergent behavior;

• Studies on specific domains and areas (open source, mobile, embedded, autonomous systems, AI, IoT technologies etc.);

• SECO business and social aspects;

• SoS and SECO stakeholder communication and coordination;

• Human and technical trust (in particular, building trust in SECO and their components);

• Security and privacy in SoS and SECO;

• Simulation and model-based engineering;

• Decision-making processes and tools for SoS and SECO;

• Techniques and tools for verification/validation/testing;

• SECO sustainability and diversity;

• Continuous engineering practices and digital twins;

• Empirical Software Engineering for SoS and SECO;

• Systematic literature reviews and mapping studies;

• Experience from industrial perspectives and case studies;

• Strategies, relationships, and applications of SoS/SECO.