Tutorials and Technical BriefingsICSE 2025

Call for Tutorials and Technical Briefings

The following information is tentative and will be finalized later

ICSE 2025 will incorporate a small number of tutorials and technical briefings intended to help software engineering researchers improve their knowledge of cutting-edge software engineering topics, useful tools and technologies or research methods.

Tutorials and technical briefings at ICSE 2025 will be held between Sunday April 27 and Wednesday April 29, 2025 or Friday May 2 to Saturday May 3 2025 in Ottawa, Canada.

Proposal Types

We are receiving proposals for:

Tutorials: Speakers provide a general state-of-the-art in the broader area of software engineering (e.g., empirical software engineering, search-based software engineering, machine learning). Duration: 180 minutes divided into two modular 90-minute sessions.

Short Technical Brief: Speakers provide a focused introduction to an emerging topic in software engineering (e.g., software engineering practices for specific types of systems or emerging technologies). Duration: 90 minutes.

Hands-On: Speakers organize a tool-supported session on a topic with hands-on participation of attendees. Duration: 90 or 180 minutes (180 minutes should provide two modular 90-minute sessions).

Submissions

Tutorial and technical briefings proposals must include the following information and should be no longer than 3 pages and must conform to the ACM conference submission and formatting instructions (https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template).

• Title
• Proposal types (Tutorials, Short technical brief or Hands-on)
• Presenters names
• Summary paragraph that will be used to publicize the tutorial in the program
• Target audience (e.g. PhD students, early career researchers, all researchers, practitioners)
• Justification for novelty of the tutorial or why ICSE attendees would be likely to want to learn the material and hence want to register for it
• Learning objectives
• Outline of topics to be covered
• Information about any hands-on component (e.g. where attendees will actually use a tool or do an exercise), and what kind of computer would be needed for this.
• Bios of the presenters, including evidence that they are experts in the area, and have teaching expertise
• In addition to proposal, sample presentation material (5-15 slides) must be submitted. For hands-on submissions, an additional page with exercise details is required.
• The proposal, sample slides, and exercise details (hands-on only) must be submitted in a single PDF file with all fonts included.
• Preferred dates (we cannot guarantee the choices of dates)
• Other sessions the presenters hope to attend (to enable the organizers to try to avoid conflicts)

By submitting your proposal to an IEEE Event, you are hereby acknowledging that you and your co-authors are subject to all IEEE Publications Policies.

Proposals should be submitted electronically using HotCrp at https://icse2025-technical-briefings.hotcrp.com/ .

Proposal Review Criteria

The ICSE tutorials committee will select a small set of tutorials based on the following:

• Overall quality of the proposal
• Relevance to the conference
• Level of interest they believe the tutorial will attract
• Experience of the presenters
• Avoidance of duplication

The decision about tutorials will be made by the tutorial chairs, and a small committee, in consultation with experts on the relevant topics that are on the committees of other ICSE 2025 tracks.

Conditions

ICSE 2025 is not able to pay for travel, or other arrangements for tutorial presenters. Tutorial and technical briefings presenters must register and pay for at least one other day or days of the conference. Tutorials and Hands-on of 3 hours will not be required to pay for the day of their own tutorial. Technical briefings of 1 or 1.5 hours that attract at least 25 pre-registrations by the early registration deadline will also not be required to pay for their tutorial day.

Accepted presenters must inform the tutorial and technical briefings committee if they have to present papers in other sessions (ICSE tracks or workshops or co-located conferences), so that conflicts can be avoided to the greatest extent possible.

ICSE 2025 reserves the right to not accept any tutorial and technical briefings’ presentations.

ICSE 2025 reserves the right to ask potential tutorial and technical briefings’ proposers to submit additional material before their proposal is accepted.

ICSE 2025 reserves the right to cancel any tutorial and technical briefings that receives fewer than 4 registrations by the early registration date.

Publication

The presenters of each accepted Technical and Tutorial Briefing will have the opportunity to publish a 2-page abstract in the ICSE 2025 Companion proceedings. The abstracts must be sent by the deadline of (January 27, 2025). They must conform to the ACM conference submission and formatting instructions (https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template) and must not exceed 2 pages, including all text, references, appendices, and figures. Further, upon acceptance, all presenters will be required to provide a short (1-2 minute) video describing their presentation topic to be placed on the ICSE website for publicity purposes.

Important Dates

• Tutorials and Technical Briefings Proposals Submissions Deadline: October 10, 2024
• Tutorials and Technical Briefings Acceptance Notification: October 24, 2024
• Tutorials and Technical Briefings Abstracts Camera Ready: November 01, 2024
• Tutorials and Technical Briefings Presentation: TBD (April 26 ~ May 04, 2025)

Submission System

TO BE SPECIFIED IN HOTCRP

Co-Chairs

Nour Ali, Brunel University, London, UK

Samuel A. Ajila, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada