Call for Papers
We invite industry practitioners and academic researchers to submit innovative solutions and/or challenging problems in any topic relevant to automated software engineering. All submissions must be written exclusively in English, and must be in PDF format and conform, at time of submission, to 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 option.
Submissions should prioritize impact and realistic applications over novelty. We expect that industry track publications focus on automation, report useful tools, success stories, and experiences for applying automated software engineering theory and methodologies into practice, or highlight practical challenges. Submissions should ideally be evaluated on real-world industrial data or compared to pre-existing industrial best practices.
Marketing or public relations material is not solicited.
The ASE Industry Showcase track accepts the following types of papers, to be submitted in PDF format.
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Long papers (10 pages + 2 page for references): Should describe an industry-relevant problem and discuss how automated software engineering solutions can be/have been applied to address this problem in an industrial context. Discussions on the innovation, cost savings, and productivity improvements brought by the solution and important lessons learned should also be discussed if appropriate.
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Short papers (5 pages + 1 page for references): Ideal for shorter contributions, including tech transfer stories, experience reports, and new ideas and visions.
Submissions to industry showcase track will not undergo double-blind reviews. The authors do not have to hide their identities in their submissions.
New This Year
A Mandatory Data Availability Statement must be placed in the paper submission after Conclusions and within the page limit. The data or reproduction packages (aka artifacts) should be published publicly via a DOI that provides long-term archive. All data that led to the results in the paper should be available to the reviewers and readers. If this is not possible, the Data Availability Statement should explicitly explain the reason.
This solves the problem that PC members are often confused about the status of the availability of data, or artifacts, or reproduction packages. So far this was actively supported and encouraged, now we require it.
Accepted Papers
All accepted papers will be published in the ASE 2026 proceedings, and the authors will be invited to present their work during the conference. After acceptance, neither the authors’ names nor the papers’ titles can be changed in the camera-ready version except when the track chairs explicitly permit this change.
Review Process
All submissions will be reviewed by at least three program committee members of the ASE Industry Showcase track. Submissions will be evaluated according to several criteria, in addition to the clarity of presenting the paper, as listed below.
- Originality: Submitted papers shall demonstrate how they advance the current state of the practice in their respective industrial contexts.
- Relevance to industrial application context: Submitted papers to this track must have relevance to the industry, which must be clearly described in the paper.
- Significance of contributions: The paper should explain how significant the work is in particular compared to the existing related works and similar industrial contexts.
- Generalizability and scalability: The evaluation will consider generalizability and scalability concerns and discuss how the results are applicable beyond the specific industrial context of the paper.