22nd International Conference on Systems and Software ReuseICSR 2025

The International Conference on Software and Systems Reuse (ICSR) is a biannual conference in the field of software reuse research and technology. ICSR is a premier event aiming to present the most recent advances and breakthroughs in the area of software reuse and to promote an intensive and continuous exchange among researchers and practitioners.

The 22nd International Conference on Software and Systems Reuse (ICSR 2025) will be held in Ottawa, Canada, April 27-28, 2025.

Call for Papers

The International Conference on Software and Systems Reuse (ICSR) is a biannual conference in the field of software reuse research and technology. ICSR is a premier event aiming to present the most recent advances and breakthroughs in the area of software reuse and to promote an intensive and continuous exchange among researchers and practitioners.

The guiding theme of this edition is AI in support of Intelligent Reuse.

We invite submissions on new and innovative research results and industrial experience reports dealing with all aspects of software reuse within the context of the modern software development landscape. Topics include but are not limited to the following.

Technical aspects of reuse, including

• Reuse in/for Quality Assurance (QA) techniques, testing, verification
• Variability management and software product lines
• Context-aware modeling for reusable knowledge
• Reusable system features and interplay between reuse and software variability
• New language abstractions for software reuse
• Generative approaches for reuse
• Open-source reuse and mining strategies in open-source repositories
• Retrieval effort, economic models and recommendation of reusable assets
• Reuse of non-code artefacts
• Architecture-centric reuse approaches
• Strategies and novel approaches for modularization
• Reusable approaches including microservices
• Sustainabile software reuse approaches
• Quality of reusable assets, quality gates, and technical debt
• Use of LLM models and tools to support the reuse process
• AI/ML techiques for smart reuse
• Development of reusable smart assets

Industrial approaches of software reuse in industry and in emerging domains

• Reuse success stories, failures and lessons learned in industry
• Reuse obstacles, success factors, and return on Investment (ROI) studies in companies
• Strategies to increase and reuse large software projects and lessons learned
• Reuse of safety-critical systems in diverse domains (e.g. automotive, railways)
• Reuse in emerging domains/paradigms: AI, Quantum Computing, Industry 4.0, Blockchain, Edge Computing

Important dates

• Abstract submission: November 18th, 2024, AoE (recommended; used for bidding)
• Paper submission: December 3rd, 2024, AoE (firm; no extensions)
• Notification: January 10th, 2025, AoE (tentative)
• Camera-ready submission: January 28th, 2025, AoE (tentative)
• ICSR 2025 conference: April 27-28th, 2025

Submission Types

• Full papers: (up to 10 pages + 2 additional pages for references): Full papers must present mature research. They must clearly state a contribution, demonstrate novelty in relation to prior work, and provide solid argumentation as to why that contribution is relevant and valid.
• Short papers: (up to 5 pages plus one for references): Short papers present emerging and/or interim findings. They aim to provide a forum for introducing fresh insights and preliminary findings in the field and to receive community feedback for progressing the work and promote alive discussion. Novel and disruptive ideas are also welcome.

Submission Form

Research and experience papers should be submitted to (https://icsr25.hotcrp.com/ ). The submission deadline is firm, no extensions.

All submissions must adhere to the following requirements:

• Page limit is 10 pages plus 2 additional pages of references for long papers and 5 pages plus 1 additional page for references for short papers.
• Submissions must be unpublished original work and should not be under review or submitted elsewhere while being under consideration.
• Submissions to ICSR 2025 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 or compsocconf options).
• Submissions must strictly conform to the IEEE conference proceedings formatting instructions specified above. Alterations of spacing, font size, and other changes that deviate from the instructions may result in desk rejection without further review.
• By submitting to ICSR, authors acknowledge that they are aware of and agree to be bound by the ACM Policy and Procedures on Plagiarism and IEEE Plagiarism FAQ. The authors also acknowledge that they conform to the authorship policy of the ACM and the authorship policy of the IEEE.
• Paper review will employ a double-anonymous review process. Thus, no submission may reveal its authors’ identities. The authors must make every effort to honor the double-anonymous review process. In particular:
  • Authors’ names must be omitted from the submitted paper.
  • All references to the author’s prior work should be in the third person.
  • Authors are encouraged to title their submission differently than preprints of the authors on ArXiV or similar sites. During review, authors should not publicly use the submission title.

• By submitting to ICSR, authors acknowledge that they are aware of and agree to be bound by the ACM Policy and Procedures on Plagiarism and the IEEE Plagiarism FAQ. In particular, papers submitted to ICSR 2025 must not have been published elsewhere and must not be under review or submitted for review elsewhere whilst under consideration for ICSR 2025. Contravention of this concurrent submission policy will be deemed a serious breach of scientific ethics, and appropriate action will be taken in all such cases. To check for double submission and plagiarism issues, the chairs reserve the right to (1) share the list of submissions with the PC Chairs of other conferences with overlapping review periods and (2) use external plagiarism detection software, under contract to the ACM or IEEE, to detect violations of these policies.

Accepted papers will be published in the ICSE 2025 Co-located Event Proceedings and included in the IEEE and ACM Digital Libraries. Authors of accepted papers are required to register and present their accepted paper at the conference in order for the paper to be included in the proceedings and the Digital Libraries.

Authors of rejected long papers may receive an acceptance as a short paper if the PC chairs and reviewers agree that it better meets the criteria for short papers. In this case, authors may decide to accept or reject the invitation if they would rather submit as a long paper to a different venue.