Call For Papers
34th International Workshop on Software Measurement (IWSM) and the 19th International Conference on Software Process and Product Measurement (MENSURA)
Oct 27-28 2025
University of Sharjah, UAE
The 34th International Workshop on Software Measurement (IWSM) and the 19th International Conference on Software Process and Product Measurement (MENSURA) will be held in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, Oct 27-28, 2025 2025 – IWSM Mensura.
The conference proceeding will be published in the: ACM International Conference Proceedings Series (ICPS).
IWSM-MENSURA is the premier international conference on software measurement. Over the past three decades, the conference has built its reputation by attracting leading-edge researchers, leaders, and innovators with talks, tutorials, and discussions. The main goal is to share experiences, challenges, and solution approaches to facilitate technology transfers from researchers and world industry experts. IWSM-MENSURA is one of the pioneer conferences in attracting industry participation, with each year 50-60% of its participants from the industry, either as speakers or as attendees. Therefore, IWSM-MENSURA is quite unique in its rich discussions on the applicability of software quality and software measurement research for decision making in organizations.
We invite papers from researchers and practitioners in all fields of software products within the following industries:
1. Mining industry
2. Petrochemicals and gas industry
3. Banking & financial services
4. Health, pharma & biotech
5. Hospitality industry
6. Renewal energy
7. Law
8. Others
Topics of interest for software products quality within these industries:
• Reliability, Security, Availability, and Safety of Software Products
• AI-based Techniques for Software Quality, Reliability, and Security
• Imbedded Machine Learning and Deep Learning Models in Software Products
• Automated Software Product Testing, Verification, and Validation
• Information and Software Quality Assurance of Products
• Software product reviews, inspections and audits
• Cloud based software products quality assessment
• Intrusion detection and prevention in software products
• Software products vulnerability detection and prevention
Similarly, we are looking for papers from practitioners and Researchers on the state-of-the-art and the future of software measurement in support to Software Project Managers within new paradigms such as IoT, Industry 4.0, Artificial Intelligence, DevOps, Quantum software, ChatGPT, etc.
Topics of interest related to software project management & measurement include (but is not limited to) the following:
● Innovations in software projects quantitative management techniques
● Data-driven decision making
● Decision support systems based on software measurements
● Effort estimation based on early size approximation techniques
● Effort estimation for Artificial Intelligence software
● Effort estimation for Industry 4.0 software
● Empirical studies in software engineering
● Formal estimation in agile environments
● Measurement and Data Analytics in the era of Artificial Intelligence
● Measurement and estimation practices in Agile software development
● Software measurement automation
● Measurement processes and resources, e.g., Agile, model-driven, etc.
● Measurement theory for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence
● Measurement-as-a-service
● Measuring and quantifying software value
● Measuring software technical debt
● Measuring the software for Industry 4.0 projects
● Monitoring and evaluation in the era of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence
● Software portfolio sizing and estimation
● Service- and product-oriented measures
● Sizing Non-Functional Requirements (NFR)
● Sizing software ecosystems
● Software benchmarking studies
● Software measurement and effort estimation in Blockchain, Game development, Metaverse
building, and other emerging technologies
● Software size approximation techniques
● Visualizations and measurement dashboards
● Software requirements sizing for quantum computers
Important Dates
• Abstract submission: May 1st, 2025
• Paper Submission due: May 15th, 2025
• Notification of acceptance/rejection: June 15th, 2025
• Final version: July 15th, 2025
Submission Guidelines
The IWSM-MENSURA 2025 proceedings will be published through ACM proceedings. All submissions must be done electronically in PDF format via the Easychair System for IWSM-MENSURA-2025.
• Papers must be in English and must not exceed 8 pages for full papers and 4 pages for short papers.
The title page must contain a short abstract.
• Paper submissions must be original contributions that have neither been published previously nor submitted to other conferences or journals while being submitted to IWSM-MENSURA-2025. Authors are encouraged to adhere to the best practices of Reproducible Research (RR), by making available data and related tools for reproducing the results reported in their papers.
• For each accepted paper, at least one author must register to the conference and present the paper.
• Final paper presentations must be submitted one week before the conference to allow posting them on the conference website on time for the conference itself.
Proceedings Chairs
• Prof Adel Khelifi, Abu Dhabi University, UAE
• Dr. Kaoutar El Maghraoui, University of Columbia/IBM, USA