Q-SE 2025

6th International Workshop on Quantum Software Engineering (Q-SE 2025)

Quantum computers offer the prospect of unprecedented speed-ups for certain algorithms. However, to realise the quantum advantage one needs to develop sophisticated implementations of quantum algorithms that are often interfaced with classical algorithms. To ensure the reliability of quantum algorithms and their integration with classical systems, we need a novel engineering discipline that can deal with the particularities of quantum technology. Thus, we believe this is the right time to build a community for quantum software engineering (Q-SE), focusing on devising methods, approaches, and processes to develop correct software for quantum programs efficiently. The Q-SE workshop is a platform for researchers and practitioners to discuss challenges in developing quantum software in high-level quantum languages, novel solutions to build correct methods for testing quantum programs, executing quantum software, developing best practices, and creating a research roadmap of quantum software engineering.

The key goals of the workshop are:

1. Provide practical and generalizable 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. Continued discussion on developing a future research roadmap for quantum software engineering from the last edition.
3. Establishing a new research community in the area of quantum software engineering through developing a special interest group.

Previous editions

• 5th International Workshop on Quantum Software Engineering (Q-SE 2024)
• 4th International Workshop on Quantum Software Engineering (Q-SE 2023)
• 3rd International Workshop on Quantum Software Engineering (Q-SE 2022)
• 2nd International Workshop on Quantum Software Engineering (Q-SE 2021)
• 1st International Workshop on Quantum Software Engineering (Q-SE 2020)

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 include but are not limited to:

• Paradigms for developing quantum software
• Quantum software design
• Quantum software testing
• Quantum software verification
• Quantum software coding practices
• Quantum software reuse
• Quantum software experimentations
• Quantum software execution
• Quantum programming languages
• Service-oriented quantum software
• Industrial applications
• Empirical evaluations

We welcome two types of publications

• Regular papers (8 pages, including references): Research or experience reports, research methods, longer challenge papers.
• Position paper (4 pages, including references): Describing a well-argued position in any area of quantum software engineering.

We also encourage authors to submit

• Fast Abstracts (2 pages, including references), describing Work in Progress and Challenges, insipring discussion and debate.

Evaluation Criteria (inspired by ICSE 2025’s review criteria)

All submissions submitted electronically through EasyChair will be reviewed by at least three program committee members. Each reviewer will evaluate each contribution for its:

• Novelty: The novelty and innovativeness of contributed solutions, problem formulations, methodologies, theories and/or evaluations, i.e., the extent to which the paper is sufficiently original with respect to state-of-the-art.
• Rigor: The soundness, clarity and depth of a technical or theoretical contribution, and the level of thoroughness and completeness of an evaluation.
• Relevance: The significance and/or potential impact of the research to the field of software engineering.
• Verifiability and Transparency: The extent to which the paper includes sufficient information to understand how an innovation works; to understand how data was obtained, analysed, and interpreted; and how the paper supports independent verification or replication of the paper’s claimed contributions. Any artefacts attached to or linked from the paper may be checked by one reviewer.
• Presentation: The clarity of the exposition in the paper.

Reviewers will carefully consider all of the above criteria during the review process, and authors should take great care in clearly addressing them all. The paper should clearly explain and justify the claimed contributions.

Paper submissions

All authors should use the official “IEEE Template”, as can be obtained from the IEEE Template page https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html

Submission link

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=qse2025

Important dates

• Papers Submission: 11 Nov 2024 AoE
• Acceptance Notification: 08 Dec 2024 AoE
• Camera Ready: 05 Feb 2025 AoE