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ISSRE 2025
Industry Track CFP
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October 21-24, 2025
São Paulo, Brazil
https://issre.net


Scope
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ISSRE (International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering) is
the leading conference on software reliability and it focuses on
approaches, techniques, and tools for assessing, predicting, and
improving the reliability, safety, and security of software systems.


Industry Track
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The ISSRE Industry Track aims to establish an informative, practically
useful, and effective dialogue between Software Engineering (SE)
practitioners and SE researchers on challenges, solutions, findings
(both positive and negative), obstacles encountered, and lessons learned
on software reliability, assurance, and their improvement. The track is
particularly interested in novel techniques and practices in software
development, including specification, design, validation, and
verification in diverse lifecycle styles, industry sectors, and kinds
of software.

Over the years, the ISSRE Industry Track program has expanded to include
a variety of topics including cloud computing, agile development, mobile
communications, defect prediction/detection/fixing, release management,
defect classification, rejuvenation, security, customer experience/
satisfaction, availability, social network analysis, big data analysis,
and reliability as well as assurance concerns of the transportation
sector (including aviation, road vehicles, rail, and marine),
healthcare, telecommunications, as well as other industry sectors that
leverage and rely on software.

Papers submitted to the ISSRE industry track have addressed topics
including but not limited to the application of software engineering
practices (which may include work on principles, techniques, tools,
methods, or processes) to a specific domain or to the development of a
substantial software system. Industry track papers are expected to be of
interest to software development professionals, as well as to software
reliability, software quality, and process improvement groups, with
concrete relevance to industrial problems and practical applications.

Of additional interest this year are emerging applications that use
artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) technologies,
applied in a variety of domains, and their reliability, trustworthiness,
and assurance. This can include software reliability for AI, and AI for
software reliability.

The 36th edition of ISSRE will be an in-person event in Sāo Paulo,
Brazil. All presenters of accepted papers will be required to attend the
conference in person. We aim to encourage wide industry participation.


Important Deadlines
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(Anywhere on Earth)


Abstract submission deadline: June 28, 2025
   Paper submission deadline: July 5, 2025
     Notification to authors: August 12, 2025
         Camera ready papers: August 19, 2025


Paper Categories
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We invite two kinds of submissions to the Industry Track:

  - Full papers: 6 pages (including references)
  - Short papers: 2 pages (including references)

All the submissions will be reviewed by members of the Industry Track Program Committee. Accepted papers will be included in the ISSRE Supplemental Proceedings and submitted for publication to IEEE Xplore.


Topics of Interest
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Topics of interest include development, analysis methods and models
throughout the software development lifecycle, especially on, but not
limited to, the following topics:

- AI and ML for software reliability, dependability, and assurance
- Dependability attributes (i.e., security, safety, maintainability,
  survivability, resilience, robustness) impacting software reliability
- Reliability threats, i.e., faults (defects, bugs, etc.), errors,
  failures
- Reliability means (fault prevention, fault removal, fault tolerance,
  fault forecasting)
- Metrics, measurements and threat estimation for reliability prediction
  and the interplay with safety/security
- Reliability of autonomous systems and (self-)adaptive systems
- Reliability of AI and ML-based systems
- Machine learning for Reliability Engineering
- Reliability of software services and Software as a Service (SaaS)
- Reliability of model-based and auto-generated software
- Reliability of open-source software
- Reliability of software dealing with Big Data
- Reliability of model-based and auto-generated software
- Reliability of green and sustainable systems
- Reliability of mobile systems
- Reliability of software within specific technological spaces (e.g.,
  Internet of Things, Cloud, Semantic Web/Web 3.0, Virtualization,
  Blockchain, networks softwarization, 5G/6G, edge-to-cloud computing)
- Normative/regulatory/ethical spaces about software reliability
- Societal aspects of software reliability


Paper Submission
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All papers must be submitted electronically via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=issre2025

A paper must include the title, the name and affiliation of each author,
an abstract of up to 150 words, and up to 4 keywords. Thus, submissions
are not anonymous.

For a complete description of the guidelines and LaTeX/Word templates:
https://issre.github.io/2025/calls_cfp-industry.html

Authors of accepted papers will have the chance to present their work at
ISSRE 2025. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the
authors to register for the conference and to give the talk, if the
paper is accepted.


Best Paper Award
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The Industry Program Chair will select three candidates among top-ranked papers presenting and motivating novel and disruptive ideas that address problems relevant for industry. Selection will be based on the reviewers’ feedback, novelty and potential impact of the results.
The final selection of the best paper will be done by the audience attending the presentation of the candidate papers. Eligible papers must be (1) full papers accepted to the industry track, and (2) co-authored by at least one author whose primary affiliation is in Industry.

Organization
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Industry PC Chairs:

- Ganesh Pai
  KBR / NASA Ames Research Center, USA

- Daniel Fireman
  Unico IDtech, Brazil

For additional information, the conference website is available at:
https://issre.net/

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