About APSEC 2025 SEIP Track

The Software Engineering in Practice (SEIP) track at APSEC 2025 serves as a bridge between industry and academia in the field of software engineering. Established to promote knowledge exchange and collaboration, this track provides a platform for practitioners and researchers to share practical experiences, innovative solutions, and emerging best practices.

APSEC 2025 SEIP focuses on cutting-edge topics including AI-driven software engineering, mobile systems, cyber-physical systems, and software safety. The track welcomes contributions that address real-world challenges and practical implementations of software engineering methodologies.

Papers undergo rigorous evaluation by the Program Committee, with emphasis on industry relevance, practical validation, and quality of presentation. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings and included in the CS Digital Library.

Join us at APSEC 2025 to connect with industry professionals and academic researchers, explore practical innovations, and contribute to advancing the field of software engineering.

For inquiries, please contact our SEIP Co-Chairs: * Xiaoning Du (Monash University) * Li Li (Beihang University)

Key Dates:

• Submission: August 7, 2025
• Notification: September 26, 2025
• Camera Ready: October 23, 2025

The purpose of SEIP (Software Engineering in Practice) track offers a unique opportunity for practitioners from industry and academia to share their valuable experiences, insights, pragmatic research issues and best practices in the software engineering community. As part of the APSEC 2025 conference, the SEIP Track aims to foster collaboration and mutual learning between these two vital sectors. We welcome submissions from industrial practitioners and academic researchers that align with the general topics outlined in the technical research track, as well as emerging technical topics such as AI, mobile systems, safety, autonomous systems and SoS (System of Systems).

Topics of Interest

The major topics of SEIP 2025 include the following, but are not limited to:

• Verification and validation of machine learning systems
• Software engineering in mobile systems such as Android, iOS, and OpenHarmony, etc.
• Software engineering in cyber-physical systems, such as SoS and autonomous vehicles
• Software safety in traditional software and intelligent software
• Generative AI and software engineering
• Emerging methodology in software engineering
• Difficulties, issues, and challenges from SE in practice
• Introduction of new standards in SE
• Best practices in traditional software engineering

Evaluation Criteria

Each submission will be meticulously reviewed by a minimum of three members of the SEIP Program Committee. The evaluation process will consider industry relevance, originality, soundness, empirical and/or practical validation, as well as the quality and coherence of the presentation. Please note that, unlike the technical research track, the SEIP track does NOT require double-anonymous reviews.

Submission Guideline

Submitted papers must have been neither previously accepted for publication nor concurrently submitted for review in another journal, book, conference, or workshop.

All submissions must be in English and must come in A4 paper size PDF format and conform, at the time of submission, to the IEEE Conference Proceedings Formatting Guidelines (title in 24pt font and full text in 10pt font, LaTeX users must use \documentclass[10pt,conference]{IEEEtran} without including the compsoc or compsocconf option). Also, papers must comply with the IEEE Policy on Authorship. Submissions must be submitted electronically in PDF before the due date via HotCRP.

An SEIP paper must not exceed 10 pages for the main text, including appendices, figures, tables, and references (short papers around 5 pages are also welcome). The Chairs reserve the right to reject submissions (without reviews) that are not in compliance or out of scope for the conference.

Important Dates

• Submission Deadline: 7 Aug 2025
• Author Notification: 26 Sep 2025
• Camera Ready Deadline: 23 Oct 2025

Submission Link

Papers must be submitted through HotCRP:

https://apsec25-seip.hotcrp.com

Accepted Papers and Attendance Expectation

All accepted papers will be submitted to the CS Digital Library as the APSEC 2025 conference proceedings. If a submission is accepted, at least one author of the paper is required to register for and attend the conference to present the paper. The presentation is expected to be delivered in person, unless this is impossible due to travel restrictions (related to, e.g., health, visa, etc.). If an accepted paper is not presented, the paper is removed from the proceedings.

Contacts

For more information, please contact the APSEC SEIP 2025 Co-Chairs:

• Xiaoning Du, Monash University, xiaoning.du@monash.edu
• Li Li, Beihang University, lilicoding@ieee.org