IDoESE - Doctoral Symposium ESEIW 2025
Call for Papers
International Doctoral Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering – IDoESE 2025
Empirical research is the backbone of most sciences and is of growing importance in software engineering. The Empirical Software Engineering community has significantly advanced the state of the art in this area. Researchers now apply a variety of empirical techniques, but choosing the correct methods and applying them to answer interesting research questions is still an art.
The objective of the doctoral symposium is to provide early- and mid-stage PhD students with a forum to discuss their work, ask questions of senior researchers, and receive constructive feedback on their PhD topics and research plans.
The core of the symposium are presentations by PhD students to a panel of senior faculty and research scientists, who will provide ideas, questions, and other feedback to the students.
Participation
Participation in this symposium is open to all empirical software engineering research students.
In addition, doctoral students may submit a research proposal that describes their dissertation work, which will be reviewed by an Expert Panel. Further, students with accepted proposals will present their work at the symposium. At a minimum, such submissions must :
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Address a software engineering topic, such as software process, requirements, design, coding practice, verification methods, software security engineering, software metrics, human factors in software development, and empirical research methods for software engineering. If in doubt, please contact the chairs before submission.
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Motivate a particular research direction.
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Discuss related work.
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Comment on appropriate research methods that the author plans to apply .
The symposium is not appropriate for PhD students at the end of their PhD who have completed all their research activities.
Submission instructions
Submissions must include:
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A brief letter of recommendation must be provided by the supervisor to verify the student’s status.
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A research proposal describing their PhD topic, research questions, research plan, and results to date, if any. The recommended length is three to six pages (including references).
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All submissions must be written in English and must be submitted via EasyChair in PDF format, and they must be formatted according to the standard IEEE template in conference mode (which can be found at https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html) or in Overleaf at https://www.overleaf.com/gallery/tagged/ieee-official) using \documentclass[conference]{IEEEtran}.
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Both documents, the proposal and the recommendation letter, should be submitted via EasyChair.
Symposium presentation
An Expert Panel will evaluate all submissions. The students that submitted accepted proposals will be invited to present their proposal at the Doctoral Symposium. Participants must attend the symposium on October 1, 2025 and, for those with an accepted research proposal, make a presentation on the contents of their proposal. The presentations are expected to be interactive, with attendees and the Expert Panel asking questions and offering feedback.
Notes:
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It is important to note that the person presenting an accepted paper must be the doctoral student, the author of the paper.
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Professors and colleagues are not allowed to present papers on behalf of the doctoral student.
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Advisors should not attend their students’ sessions.
Important Dates
(All dates are end of day, anywhere on earth)
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Submissions: April 1, 2025
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Notification: May 9, 2025
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Camera-ready: June, 27th, 2025
- In addition, participants would email a copy of the final pdf to the symposium chairs
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Doctoral symposium: October 1, 2025