We invite you to contribute original, unpublished, high-quality manuscripts for the technical paper track. We also invite proposals for workforce-building tutorials, community-building workshops, innovative posters, and stimulating panels accessible to a broad and diverse audience of software practitioners, developers, researchers, industry leaders, and policymakers. We encourage contributions with a mix of authors from industry, academia, and government offering innovative solutions and real-world insights.

Submissions should address challenges and opportunities spanning the full spectrum of computing and software, including but not limited to:

Emerging Software Systems & Architectures

• Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) & Large Language Models (LLMs): Exploring prompt engineering, retrieval augmented generation (RAG) techniques, and novel applications of AI.
• Cloud, Edge, Accelerated Computing: Advances in cloud-native architectures, microservices, and serverless paradigms, especially in modern accelerated and heterogeneous hardware architectures like GPU, NPU, and DPU.
• Big Data & Real-Time Analytics: Next-generation platforms for processing and deriving insights from massive and/or real-time datasets.
• Autonomous and Adaptive Systems: Digital twins, self-healing networks, and systems that learn and evolve in real time and over extended periods.
• Software-Enabled Healthcare & Bioinformatics: AI-driven diagnostics, remote monitoring, and personalized medicine applications.
• Internet of Things (IoT) & Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS): Smart cities, Industry 4.0 innovations, and connected ecosystems.
• Quantum Computing: Hybrid quantum-classical approaches, distributed quantum computing, quantum software engineering, quantum algorithms, and practical quantum development.
• Trustworthy & Transparent AI Systems: Ensuring robustness, explainability, fairness, and accountability in AI-driven systems.
• Novel Programming Models for Data-Oriented Accelerated Computing: Emerging programming models to cope with the end of Moore's Law as well as high-performance computing in the context of embedded, AI and classic scientific computing.

Evolving Software Engineering Practices

• AI-Driven Development: Generative AI, automated code generation, intelligent debugging, and machine learning-powered quality assurance.
• Agentic Software & Intelligent Agents: Investigations into self-governing, context-aware software that autonomously adapts to changing environments and user needs.
• Modern DevOps & Continuous Delivery: Innovations in microservices, containerization, and rapid deployment strategies, genAI-driven and agent-driven automation and toolchains.
• Software Analytics: Mining software repositories, software supply chains, and data-driven decision-making in software engineering.
• Secure Software Lifecycle: Integrating security best practices into agile and DevOps pipelines, including zero trust architectures.
• Innovations in Compiler Design: Novel compiler optimizations, domain-specific languages, just-in-time compilation techniques, and tools that enhance developer productivity and system performance.
• Compile-time and Run-time Software Quality Assurance: Software vulnerabilities, software testing, and verification.
• Open Source Engineering: Innovation and policies to enable and nourish open source for large-scale projects and initiatives like open source LLMs as well as best practices for establishing open source program offices.

Innovations in AI

• Next-Generation AI Techniques: Advances in deep learning, reinforcement learning, diffusion models, and beyond.
• Explainable & Responsible AI: Research for ensuring transparency, ethical considerations, fairness, and societal accountability.
• Federated and Edge AI: Distributed AI approaches that preserve data privacy while harnessing edge computing capabilities.
• AI for Social Impact: Applications addressing environmental sustainability, disaster response, public health, and social equity.

Cybersecurity & Digital Privacy

• Zero Trust Security Models: Novel frameworks and strategies for threat detection, intrusion prevention, and risk mitigation.
• Privacy-Enhancing Technologies: Innovations in differential privacy, homomorphic encryption, and secure multi-party computation.
• Blockchain & Decentralized Systems: Emerging trends in decentralized finance (DeFi), trustless systems, and secure distributed ledgers.

Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) & Immersive Experiences

• Immersive & Extended Reality: Advances in augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), and mixed reality for next-gen user experiences.
• Next-Gen User Interfaces: Designing intuitive, multimodal interfaces for smart devices, wearables, and mobile ecosystems.
• Digital Collaboration & Social Media Analytics: Enhancing interaction and productivity in hybrid work environments, enhancing understanding of online engagement.

Sustainable and Responsible Computing

• Green Computing & Sustainability: Energy-efficient algorithms, sustainable system designs, and eco-friendly computing practices.
• Responsible AI: low resource models, energy-efficient training strategies and practices that reduce the energy footprint of Foundation Models like Large Language Models (LLMs).
• Digital Transformation for Smart Ecosystems: Leveraging technology to build sustainable smart cities and transformative digital platforms.

Submission Types

CASCON 2025 calls for the following types of  submissions:

1. Regular Papers: Novel and mature research work (up to 10 pages including references).
2. Short Papers: Work in progress with some validation results, experience reports, new ideas and visionary papers based on supporting theory or evidence, and application papers (up to 6 pages including references).
3. Applications/Industrial Papers: Practical case studies, benchmark tools, and empirical studies addressing real-world industrial challenges (up to 6 pages, including references).
4. Artifacts Evaluation: Authors of regular, short papers and applications/industrial papers accepted for CASCON 2025 can submit an artifact for evaluation. If their corresponding artifacts meet certain conditions, papers will be given the IEEE Open Research Object or Research Object Reviewed badges. The papers will display the awarded badges to recognize their contributions to open science.
5. Posters: New ideas, experiences, ongoing results, and challenges in building Intelligent Systems and Software (up to 2 pages including references).
6. Workshops: Proposals for interactive sessions that provide a forum to present, discuss, and debate issues, problems, ideas, technology gaps, work-in-progress, and/or directions. The workshop format may include position papers, expert panels, and panel discussions. Workshops may be half-day or full-day.
7. Tutorials: These are proposals for interactive sessions that provide excellent opportunities for researchers, practitioners, and technology experts to offer demos and/or hands-on experience with state-of-the-art tools or emerging technologies, or deep dives into advanced research methodology or industrial best practices. Tutorials may be half-day or full-day.

Paper Instructions

Each technical paper must conform at the time of submission to the IEEE Formatting Instructions (i.e., title in 24pt font and full text in 10pt type, LaTEX users must use \documentclass[10pt,conference] {IEEEtran} without including the compsoc nor the compsocconf options).

CASCON 2025 will not accept submissions that have been previously published, are in press, or have been submitted elsewhere. Any article that includes AI-generated content (e.g., text, figures or algorithms) must disclose this in the acknowledgements section. The paper sections containing AI-generated content must include a citation to the used AI system for its generation. Additional submission guidelines are available at Submission Policies - IEEE Author Center Conferences.

Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings published in IEEE Xplore. One of the authors of the accepted papers must register and present the paper at the conference. Failure to attend and present the paper at the conference will result in the withdrawal of the paper from the IEEE Xplore proceedings.

Best Paper Awards

Best Paper and Best Student Paper awards will be given to recognize the best technical contributions of the event in terms of originality, clarity, and potential impact. To be eligible for the Best Student Paper award, the primary author(s) of the paper and contributor(s) of the

work must have been a student(s) at the time the work was done.

Initial Manuscript Submission Instructions

Submissions are made via EasyChair and must be in the double-column standard IEEE format for conference proceedings. All types of papers should strictly follow the page limit constraint to be considered as eligible for review. The defined page limit should include the paper, figures, tables, and references. The steps for submitting a paper are as follows:

• Visit EasyChair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cascon2025
• After logging in, click on make a new submission to submit your paper
• All authors should use the IEEE Formatting Instructions, which can be obtained from the IEEE Proceedings Template pages

CASCON 2025 will employ a double-anonymous review process. Therefore, submissions may not reveal the identity of their authors. The authors must make every effort to honour the double-anonymous review process. In particular:

• Authors' names must be omitted from the submission.
• All references to the author's prior work should be in the third person.
• While authors can upload preprints on ArXiV or similar sites, they should avoid specifying that the manuscript was submitted to CASCON.
• Authors should not publicly use the submission title during the review (e.g., in social media posts).

We look forward to your submissions that push the boundaries of research and tackle today’s most pressing technology challenges and trends. Join us at CASCON 2025 to drive innovation, foster knowledge exchange, and bridge the gap between groundbreaking research and industrial application.

Camera-Ready Submission Instructions

• Instructions for camera-ready manuscript submission will be sent to accepted contribution authors with the notification messages.
• Submission of camera-ready manuscripts will be through IEEE Publication Services.

Links to Tracks and Submission Deadlines

For further details on tracks and guidelines, please refer to the respective links below:

Tutorial Proposal

https://cascon.ca/tracks/tutorials

• Tutorial abstract submission: May 12, 2025
• Full proposal submission: May 19, 2025
• Acceptance notification: June 9, 2025
• Tutorial dates: Nov 10-13, 2025

Workshop Proposal

https://cascon.ca/tracks/workshops

• Proposal abstract submission deadline: May 12, 2025
• Proposal full submission deadline: May 19, 2025
• Acceptance notification: June 9, 2025
• Workshop dates: Nov 10-13, 2025

Poster Proposal

https://cascon.ca/tracks/posters

• Poster abstract submission: TBD
• Full poster proposal submission: TBD
• Acceptance notification: TBD
• Poster session dates: Nov 10-13, 2025

Technical Paper

https://cascon.ca/tracks/research

• Technical paper abstract submission: Jun 2, 2025
• Full technical paper submission: Jun 9, 2025
• Acceptance notification: Aug 11, 2025
• Technical paper presentation dates: Nov 10-13, 2025

Artifact Evaluation

https://cascon.ca/tracks/artifacts

• Artifact paper abstract: Aug 18, 2025
• Full artifact paper submission: Aug 25, 2025
• Acceptance notification: Sep 29, 2025
• Technical paper presentation dates: Nov 10-13, 2025

Camera-Ready Submission Instructions

• Instructions for camera-ready manuscript submission will be sent to accepted contribution authors with the notification messages.
• Submission of camera-ready manuscripts will be through IEEE Publication Services.