ICSR 2025: Call for Papers

The International Conference on Software and Systems Reuse (ICSR) is a biannual conference in the field of software reuse research and technology. ICSR is a premier event aiming to present the most recent advances and breakthroughs in the area of software reuse and to promote an intensive and continuous exchange among researchers and practitioners.

The guiding theme of this edition is AI in support of Intelligent Reuse.

We invite submissions on new and innovative research results and industrial experience reports dealing with all aspects of software reuse within the context of the modern software development landscape.

Topics of Interest

Topics include but are not limited to:

• Technical aspects of reuse, including:
  • Reuse in/for Quality Assurance (QA) techniques, testing, verification
  • Variability management and software product lines
  • Context-aware modeling for reusable knowledge
  • Reusable system features and interplay between reuse and software variability
  • New language abstractions for software reuse
  • Generative approaches for reuse
  • Open-source reuse and mining strategies in open-source repositories
  • Retrieval effort, economic models and recommendation of reusable assets
  • Reuse of non-code artefacts
  • Architecture-centric reuse approaches
  • Strategies and novel approaches for modularization
  • Reusable approaches including microservices
  • Sustainable software reuse approaches
  • Quality of reusable assets, quality gates, and technical debt
  • Use of LLM models and tools to support the reuse process
  • AI/ML techniques for smart reuse
  • Development of reusable smart assets
• Industrial approaches of software reuse in industry and in emerging domains:
  • Reuse success stories, failures and lessons learned in industry
  • Reuse obstacles, success factors, and return on Investment (ROI) studies in companies
  • Strategies to increase and reuse large software projects and lessons learned
  • Reuse of safety-critical systems in diverse domains (e.g. automotive, railways)
  • Reuse in emerging domains/paradigms: AI, Quantum Computing, Industry 4.0, Blockchain, Edge Computing

Keynote Talk

Keynote by Tommi Mikkonen (University of Jyväskylä, Finland)

Title: AI-assisted Development — Next-Generation Software Reuse?

Important Dates (AoE - UTC-12h)

• Abstract submission: November 18th, 2024 (recommended; used for bidding)
• Paper submission: December 3rd, 2024 (firm; no extensions)
• Notification: January 10th, 2025 (tentative)
• Camera-ready submission: January 28th, 2025 (tentative)
• ICSR 2025 conference: April 27-28th, 2025

Submission Types

• Full papers: (up to 10 pages + 2 additional pages for references). Full papers must present mature research, state a clear contribution, demonstrate novelty, and provide solid argumentation.
• Short papers: (up to 5 pages + 1 additional page for references). Short papers present emerging and/or interim findings, aiming to provide a forum for fresh insights and preliminary findings, and to receive community feedback.

Submission Form

Research and experience papers should be submitted to https://icsr25.hotcrp.com/. The submission deadline is firm, with no extensions.

Submission Requirements:

• Page limits: 10 pages + 2 for references for long papers; 5 pages + 1 for references for short papers.
• Submissions must be original, unpublished work and not under review elsewhere.
• Conform to the IEEE conference proceedings template (

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• Strict adherence to formatting instructions is required; deviations may lead to desk rejection.
• Authors must be aware of and agree to ACM and IEEE policies on plagiarism and authorship.

Review Process

Paper review will employ a double-anonymous review process. Authors must ensure submissions do not reveal their identities, including omitting names, using third-person references for prior work, and avoiding pre-print titles that match submission titles.

Publication

Accepted papers will be published in the ICSE 2025 Co-located Event Proceedings and included in the IEEE and ACM Digital Libraries. Authors of accepted papers must register and present their paper at the conference.

Contact

For questions, please use the ICSR contact form.