ICSE 2027
Sun 25 April - Sat 1 May 2027 Dublin, Ireland
ICSE 2027 (series) / Q-SE 2027 (series) /

Q-SE 2027

Quantum computers promise to solve unthinkably complex problems that traditional computers could never solve. The evidence of such quantum supremacy over traditional computers has started to emerge, as can be seen by Google’s quantum computer recently performing a complex computation that would take 10,000 years for the best supercomputer available today. This evidence has recently attracted the interest of industry and national and international funding agencies. Moreover, it is resulting in a growing number of application-specific experiments in a variety of highly critical fields, from aerospace mission planning to protein engineering, cybersecurity, and logistics. In this context, Q-SE is the venue with the longest tradition in the quantum software engineering area and aims to nurture the Quantum Software Engineering community, focusing on devising methods, approaches, and processes to develop and operate software for quantum programs efficiently and to ensure their correctness. The Q-SE workshop will provide a platform for researchers and practitioners to discuss the challenges in developing, validating, optimising, deploying and orchestrating quantum software, consolidating the community, developing best practices, and creating a research roadmap of quantum software engineering.

The key goals of the workshop are:

  1. Provide practical and generalisable insights on how to apply and extend existing approaches to quantum software development or develop entirely new approaches.
  2. Devise ways in which industry and academia can collaborate to provide further knowledge on developing quantum software.
  3. Provide academia with feedback on which skills and abilities are required in quantum software development and where to concentrate on the education of students.
  4. Demonstrate to academia new as well as existing practical challenges in the field of quantum software engineering.
  5. Communicate the latest research findings to practitioners and discuss ways to adapt them for industrial products, services, and processes.

The key outcomes of the workshop are:

  1. Understanding the current state-of-the-art and state of the practice related to quantum software engineering.
  2. Developing a future research roadmap for quantum software engineering.
  3. Establishing a new research community in the area of quantum software engineering through developing a special interest group.

Previous editions

Call for Papers

Q-SE welcomes submissions addressing topics across the full spectrum of Quantum Software Engineering, being inclusive of quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-methods research.

Topics of interest

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  • Quantum Software Coding Practices and Reuse
  • Quantum Software Analysis and Execution
  • Quantum Software Languages and Architectures
  • Quantum Software Testing, Verification, and Debugging
  • Error Correction
  • Service-oriented Quantum Software
  • Industrial Applications and Empirical Evaluation
  • Teaching Quantum Software Engineering
  • Quantum Software Stack Engineering and Hybrid Solutions
  • Q-SE for NISQ Architectures and Quantum DevOps
  • The Intersection of Quantum Computing and AI

Submission types

We invite two types of submissions:

  • Regular papers (max 8 pages including references): experience reports (practical and generalisable insights into how to apply and extend existing approaches to quantum software engineering), research papers (papers presenting validated research results in the area of quantum software engineering)
  • Position and work in progress papers (between 2 - 5 pages including references): describing a well-argued position in any area of quantum software engineering, including but not limited to potential for collaborative research, application of quantum software engineering research in industry, future research directions in the field, early achievements results in quantum software engineering, work in progress challenges, etc.

Evaluation Criteria (inspired by ICSE 2027’s review criteria)

All submissions submitted electronically through hotCPR will be reviewed by at least three program committee members. Each reviewer will evaluate each contribution as follows:

  • Soundness: The extent to which the paper’s contributions and/or innovations address its research questions and are supported by rigorous application of appropriate research methods.

  • Significance: The extent to which the paper’s contributions can impact the field of quantum software engineering, and under which assumptions (if any).

  • Novelty: The extent to which the contributions are sufficiently original with respect to the state-of-the-art.

  • Verifiability and Transparency: The extent to which the paper includes sufficient information to understand how an innovation works, and how data (if any) was obtained, analysed, and interpreted; and how the paper supports independent verification or replication of its claimed contributions.

  • Presentation: The extent to which the paper’s quality of writing meets the high standards of Q-SE and ICSE, including clear descriptions, as well as adequate use of the English language, absence of major ambiguity, clearly readable figures and tables, and adherence to the formatting instructions provided below.

Reviewers will carefully consider all of these criteria during the review process, and authors should take great care in clearly addressing them all. The paper should clearly explain the claimed contributions, and how they are sound, significant, novel, and verifiable, as described above.

Paper Submission

All submissions must conform to the IEEE conference proceedings template, specified in the IEEE Conference Proceedings Formatting Guidelines (title in 24pt font and full text in 10pt type, LaTeX users must use \documentclass[10pt,conference]{IEEEtran} without including the compsoc orcompsocconf options). Note that IEEE format is being used this year, whereas last year it was ACM format.

Submission Link

https://icse2027-qse.hotcrp.com/

Important dates

  • Papers Submission Deadline: Friday 27 November 2026
  • Papers Acceptance Notification: Friday 11 December 2026
  • Camera Ready Deadline: Friday 29 January 2027

Organizing Committee
Program Committee