Conference Information
ICSME 2026: International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution
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2026-09-14 |
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Benevento, Italy |
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Call For Papers
The 41st IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME 2025) is the premier forum for researchers and practitioners to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, experiences, and challenges in software maintenance and evolution. We invite high-quality submissions describing significant and unpublished results related to, but not limited to, any of the following software maintenance and evolution topics (in alphabetical order):
Change and defect management
Code cloning and provenance
Concept and feature location
Continuous integration/deployment
Empirical studies of software maintenance and evolution
Evolution of non-code artifacts
Evolution and maintenance of AI-based applications
Human factors and social aspects of software maintenance and evolution
Large Language Models for software evolution and maintenance tasks
Maintenance and evolution of model-based methods
Maintenance and evolution of mobile apps
Maintenance and evolution of service-oriented and cloud computing systems
Maintenance and evolution processes
Maintenance versus release process
Mining software repositories
Productivity of software engineers during maintenance and evolution
Release engineering
Reverse engineering and re-engineering
Run-time evolution and dynamic configuration
Software and system comprehension
Software migration and renovation
Software quality assessment
Software refactoring and restructuring
Software testing theory and practice
Source code analysis and manipulation
Technical Debt
ICSME welcomes innovative ideas that are timely, well-presented, and evaluated. All submissions must position themselves within the existing literature, describe the relevance of the results to specific software engineering goals, and include a clear motivation and presentation of the work. All submissions must be in English and follow the paper submission guidelines below.
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Acceptance Ratio
| Year | Submitted | Accepted | Accepted(%) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 133 | 36 | 27.1% |
| 2009 | 162 | 35 | 21.6% |
| 2008 | 156 | 40 | 25.6% |
| 2007 | 214 | 46 | 21.5% |
| 2006 | 147 | 45 | 30.6% |
| 2005 | 180 | 80 | 44.4% |
| 2004 | 122 | 48 | 39.3% |
| 2003 | 108 | 45 | 41.7% |
| 2002 | 127 | 61 | 48% |
| 2001 | 161 | 68 | 42.2% |
| 1999 | 100 | 49 | 49% |
| 1998 | 97 | 33 | 34% |
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Related Journals
| CCF | Full Name | Impact Factor | Publisher | ISSN |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution: Research and Practice | 1.700 | John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. | 2047-7481 | |
| b | Journal of Software: Evolution and Process | 1.700 | John Wiley & Sons, Ltd | 2047-7481 |
| b | Performance Evaluation | 1.0 | Elsevier | 0166-5316 |
| International journal of Software Engineering & Applications | AIRCC | 0976-2221 | ||
| b | Software: Practice and Experience | 3.200 | John Wiley & Sons, Ltd | 1097-024X |
| c | Software Quality Journal | 1.700 | Springer | 0963-9314 |
| Software-Concepts and Tools | Springer | 0945-8115 | ||
| c | International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering | World Scientific | 0218-1940 | |
| a | IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering | 6.500 | IEEE | 0098-5589 |
| c | IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing | IEEE | 1536-1233 |
| Full Name | Impact Factor | Publisher |
|---|---|---|
| Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution: Research and Practice | 1.700 | John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. |
| Journal of Software: Evolution and Process | 1.700 | John Wiley & Sons, Ltd |
| Performance Evaluation | 1.0 | Elsevier |
| International journal of Software Engineering & Applications | AIRCC | |
| Software: Practice and Experience | 3.200 | John Wiley & Sons, Ltd |
| Software Quality Journal | 1.700 | Springer |
| Software-Concepts and Tools | Springer | |
| International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering | World Scientific | |
| IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering | 6.500 | IEEE |
| IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing | IEEE |