COSEc:  International Workshop on Continuous Software Engineering and System Compliance

Call for Papers

COSEc invites concise, experience-driven, and evidence-based contributions on making assurance as continuous as delivery. We particularly welcome reports from industry and academia that translate research into practice across CI/CD, operations, and audit—covering methods, tools, and case studies that keep large-scale, microservice- and AI/ML-intensive systems dependable and compliant under fast release cycles. Submissions should align with APSEC’s software engineering scope and complement the main program with pragmatic insights and measurable impact. 

Topics of Interest

• Specification of complex systems; continuous software engineering; modeling and deployment of adaptive systems
  
  

• System and policy verification; compliance modeling and verification
  
  

• Digital-twin modeling & synchronization; simulation of component-based and service-oriented systems
  
  

• Run-time analytics and log/telemetry pipelines; fault/anomaly prediction; preventive maintenance
  
  

• AIOps/LLM assistants; secure cryptography/secret use; privacy-aware data lineage
  
  

• Distributed storage and data management; trust, security, and traceability

Submission Guidelines

Submitted papers must have been neither previously accepted for publication nor concurrently submitted for review in another journal, book, conference, or workshop.

All submissions must be in English and must come in A4 paper size PDF format and conform, at the time of submission, to the IEEE Conference Proceedings Formatting Guidelines (title in 24pt font and full text in 10pt font, LaTeX users must use \documentclass[10pt,conference]{IEEEtran} without including the compsoc or compsocconf option). Also, papers must comply with the IEEE Policy on Authorship. 

Track A – Full Papers

• Length: Up to 10 pages, including references, tables, and figures. The papers must not exceed 10 pages for the main text, including appendices, figures, tables, and references.

Track B – Short Papers

• Length: 4–6 pages, including references, tables and figures. The papers must not exceed 6 pages for the main text, including appendices, figures, tables, and references.

• Submission: Same mechanism as Full Papers.

Submission & Contacts

For submission & other inquiries, please get in touch with the COSEc 2025 organizers:
Professor Kostas Kontogiannis—kkontog@yorku.ca
Mete Isiksalan—misiksal@yorku.ca

Templates & policies: IEEE conference templates and author ethics resources are available from the IEEE Author/Overleaf pages.

Important Dates (AoE)

• Submission deadline: October 16, 2025

• Notification: October 31, 2025

• Camera-ready: November 3, 2025

• Workshop: 2 December 2025 (Wynn Palace, Macao SAR).

Presentation & Attendance

At least one author of each accepted paper must register for APSEC and present in person at the workshop (conference policies apply; non-presented papers may be excluded from the proceedings). IEEE Author Center Conferences