Industry PapersFORGE 2025

Call for Papers

We are excited to invite submissions for the Industry Track of FORGE 2025. The Industry Track aims to bridge the gap between academic research and real-world industry practices in the deployment of Large Language Models (LLMs) and foundational models in Software Engineering (SE). This track will serve as a platform for fostering collaboration between industry stakeholders and academic experts, highlighting the latest innovations, practical insights, and emerging challenges in the fields:

• Real-world deployment of LLMs in SE tasks: Explore how LLMs are being used to solve pressing SE problems, providing key insights into the challenges and opportunities that arise during real-world adoption.
• Tools, best practices, and design principles for LLMs in SE: Identify and share practical tools, frameworks, and best practices that can help streamline LLM deployment in industrial settings.
• Demo papers with verifiable business or real-world impact: We welcome submissions that showcase demonstrated and measurable business or practical impact from LLM deployments. Submissions can range from early prototypes to production-ready systems.
• Open-source and open-access solutions: We also encourage papers describing publicly available open-source or open-access systems, libraries, and resources that contribute to the broader SE and LLM communities.

FORGE 2025 will be held on Sun 27 - Mon 28 April 2025, in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

Topics of Interest

We encourage submissions in the following areas:

• Practical and efficient training, inference, and serving of foundational models (FMs) for SE tasks with a focus on speed, scale, and cost-efficiency
• Privacy, security, ethics, and bias considerations in the application of FMs for SE tasks
• Debugging, monitoring, and continuous maintenance of FM-driven SE applications
• Industrial-scale data preparation, feature selection, and feature extraction for FM deployment in SE tasks
• Case studies and lessons learned from real-world, end-to-end production of FM pipelines in SE environments
• Emerging applications of FM agents in SE applications
• Open-source and open-access systems, libraries, and tools for foundational model applications in SE
• Opinion or vision papers offering insights into the future of foundational models in SE applications

How to Submit

We welcome submissions that explore the application of foundation models in software engineering within an industrial context.

Submitted papers should not exceed 4 pages for the main text, inclusive of all figures, tables, and appendices. Two more pages containing only references are permitted.

All submissions must be in PDF. The page limit is strict, and it will not be possible to purchase additional pages at any point in the process (including after acceptance).

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, we use double-anonymous reviewing. Be sure to remove the list of authors from the submitted paper. If citing your own prior work, please do so in the third person to obscure the relationship you have with it. For advice, guidance, and explanation about the double-anonymous review process, see ICSE Research Track’s Q&A page.

All papers must be written in English. The authors are strongly encouraged to use the HotCRP format checker on their submissions. Note that the format checker is not perfect. In particular, it can complain about small fonts in figures, footnotes, or references. As long as the main text follows the requested format, and the figures are readable, the paper will not be rejected for format violations. If you have any concerns, please contact the program chairs.

All papers should be made accessible to people with disabilities. Some guidelines from the SIGACCESS community are available here: https://assets21.sigaccess.org/creating_accessible_pdfs.html.

Please submit your paper on HotCRP: https://forge2025-industry-track.hotcrp.com/

Evaluation Criteria

Each paper submitted to the Industry Track of FORGE 2025 will be evaluated based on the following criteria:

1. Relevance to Industry: The direct applicability of the work to the defined Industry Track topics and its connection to practical challenges and solutions in the industrial application of foundation models for software engineering.
2. Practical Impact and Value: The extent to which the work addresses real-world problems, offers practical solutions, or provides valuable insights for industry practitioners, with clear potential for impact.
3. Technical Soundness: The technical rigor and competence of the work, demonstrating a clear understanding of the underlying technologies and methodologies.
4. Novelty: The degree of innovation or originality in the work, including novel applications of established research or entirely new contributions. While not a primary criterion, it’s still considered valuable.
5. Presentation: The clarity and effectiveness of the paper’s exposition, ensuring the problem, approach, results, and implications are well-articulated and easily understood.

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. Each paper will be handled by an area chair who will ensure reviewing consistency among papers submitted within that area.