Doctoral SymposiumCAIN 2025

This year, CAIN will again include a Doctoral Symposium, providing students with the opportunity to receive rich feedback on their PhD work related to the CAIN themes of Software Engineering applied to AI and Data Science. Students may submit single-author abstracts of early-stage ideas or late-stage work for review by the Doctoral Symposium Committee.

Submissions

All submissions should be accompanied by an endorsement letter from their advisor, including the assessment of the current status of the research and an expected date for the completion of the dissertation. All submissions should be uploaded to Hotcrp.

For the early PhD category, the submissions should be 2 pages long, with one additional page permitted for references only. The submissions should clearly state:

• the problem to be solved in the student’s research (justify why this problem is important and make clear that previous research and related work has not yet solved that problem),
• the research hypothesis or claim,
• the expected contributions of the research,
• the plan for evaluating the contribution and presenting credible evidence of the results to the community.

For the late PhD category, the submissions should be 4 pages long, with one additional page permitted for references only. The submissions should include the bulleted items above, as well as:

• a description of the results achieved so far, and
• the planned timeline for completion 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 or compsocconf options).

Note on Scope: Submissions that report strictly on data science or model development without any connection to software engineering and AI-enabled systems will be desk-rejected. There are many venues for those papers where authors would get much more valuable and relevant feedback. Additional information on CAIN scope can be found here.

Accepted submissions will be presented at the main conference via a poster and/or short presentation, depending on availability. We will host a dedicated session for students with accepted submissions to give a more detailed presentation and receive expert feedback. The submissions may, at the review committee’s discretion, be published in the CAIN 2025 proceedings. The official publication date is the date the proceedings are made available in the ACM or IEEE Digital Libraries. This date may be up to two weeks prior to the first day of ICSE 2025. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work. Purchase of additional pages in the proceedings is not allowed.

Authors of all accepted submissions are required to register for the CAIN 2025 conference.

Submission