CASCON 2025: 35th IEEE International Conference on Collaborative Advances in Software and COmputiNg York University - Keele Campus - Second Student Center Toronto, Canada, November 10-13, 2025 |
| Conference website | https://cascon.ca/ |
| Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cascon2025 |
| CASCON 2025 Tutorial Proposal Submission | May 19, 2025 |
| CASCON 2025 Workshop Proposal Submission | May 19, 2025 |
| CASCON 2025 Technical Paper Submission | June 9, 2025 |
| CASCON 2025 Artifact Evaluation Paper Submission | August 25, 2025 |
| CASCON 2025 Poster Paper Submission | August 25, 2025 |
CASCON 2025 will be held at Second Student Center York University's Keele campus, which is centrally located in the Greater Toronto Area, Ontario, Canada. The conference will feature world-class keynote speakers, inspiring technical paper presentations, stimulating panels, workforce-building tutorials, community-building workshops, dynamic poster sessions, and terrific networking opportunities.
CASCON is a premier academic and industrial conference where attendees can explore cutting-edge research, trailblazing practices, and collaboration opportunities in software and computing.
Over the years, CASCON has fostered a thriving community of software practitioners, developers, researchers, industry leaders, and policymakers who share knowledge, explore new technologies, exchange insights, investigate emerging trends, and showcase next-generation prototypes and solutions.
CASCON is now co-sponsored by IEEE Computer Society and CS-CAN/INFO-CAN, and the proceedings will be published in IEEE Xplore. CASCON 2025 will focus on the dynamic and rapidly evolving modern computing landscape, including the convergence of generative AI, advanced automation, hybrid cloud computing, high-performance computing, quantum computing, and responsible & sustainable computing. This landscape is exciting and disruptive, with unparalleled opportunities as well as ethical and regulatory challenges with your contributions and participation.
Submission Guidelines
We invite you to contribute original, unpublished, high-quality manuscripts for the technical paper track.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.
Technical Papers
IEEE CASCON 2025 aims to be a leading venue for presenting high-quality original research, ground-breaking innovations, and compelling insights in software and computing. Technical papers are peer-reviewed and can be on any topic related to the CASCON 2025 conference topics listed below. They will be considered by one of the following technical paper tracks. Technical papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another conference or journal.
- Regular Technical Papers: Novel and mature research work (up to 10 pages including references).
- Short Technical 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).
- Applications/Industrial Technical Papers: Practical case studies, benchmark tools, and empirical studies addressing real-world industrial challenges (up to 6 pages, including references).
- Artifacts Evaluation: Authors of accepted regular, short papers, or applications/industrial papers can submit bartifacts 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.
Publication and Digital Libraries: Accepted technical papers will appear in the IEEE CASCON 2025 proceedings and will be submitted to IEEE Xplore Digital Library and IEEE Computer Society Digital Library (CSDL). Each poster 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 or compsocconf option). The submission must also comply with the IEEE Policy on Authorship.
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.
Workshops
IEEE CASCON 2025 Workshops are interactive sessions on topics in research, practice, education, and applications. A workshop provides opportunities for researchers, practitioners, scientists, engineers, developers, students, educators, developers, and newcomers to exchange, present, discuss, and debate scientific and engineering ideas, problems, technology gaps, work-in-progress, and/or directions. The workshop format may include position papers, expert panels, and panel discussions. Each IEEE CASCON 2025 workshop is a half-day or a full day. Participation in an IEEE CASCON 2025 workshop should be open to all registered CASCON attendees.
Tutorials
The rapid pace of innovation in software and computing (e.g., generative AI, adaptive systems, cloud computing, digital twins, or quantum computing) makes it challenging to keep up. But with the right strategies, you can stay ahead of the curve without feeling overwhelmed. The IEEE CASCON 2025 tutorials, by leading experts, are aimed squarely at workforce development and training considerations in emerging technologies. CASCON tutorials are interactive sessions that provide excellent opportunities for researchers, practitioners, and technology experts to offer demos and/or hands-on experiences with state-of-the-art tools or emerging technologies, or deep dives into advanced research methodologies or industrial best practices. Each IEEE CASCON 2025 workshop is a half-day.
Panels
IEEE CASCON 2025 aims to facilitate enlightening and impactful discussions among experts on different perspectives of software and computing. The goal is to gather diverse researchers and practitioners to share their insightful perspectives and engage the broader community in a dialogue.
Posters
The IEEE Quantum Week 2025 Posters program presents excellent opportunities for graduate students, undergraduate students, researchers, practitioners, and start-ups to showcase their work and engage with the R&D community. Posters are intended to stimulate discussions on recent advances, experiences, and challenges in software and computing.
A Poster submission can be on any topic related to the CASCON 2025 conference topics listed below and requires two parts: (1) a two-page poster paper that includes all the trimmings of a regular technical paper (i.e., title, keywords, abstract, contents, and references; and (2) the actual poster to be displayed on a Poster board in the CASCON 2025 Posters area.
Two-page Poster papers are peer-reviewed by members of the Posters Program Committee. Accepted poster papers will appear in the IEEE CASCON 2025 proceedings. Each poster 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 or compsocconf option). The submission must also comply with the IEEE Policy on Authorship.
Submission Instructions
Paper and Proposal Instructions
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.
Each technical paper or workshop, tutorial, panel, or poster proposal 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).
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.
List of Conference Topics
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 Instructions
Paper and Proposal Instructions
Each technical paper or workshop, tutorial, panel, or poster proposal 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.
Initial Manuscript Submission Instructions
Submissions via EasyChair 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 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.
Organizing Committee
- General Co-Chairs
- Ying (Jenny) Zou, Queen's University
- Hausi Müller, University of Victoria
- Steering Committee Chair
- Marin Litoiu, York University
- Immediate Past General Chair
- J. Nelson Amaral, University of Alberta
- Technical Paper Program Co-chairs
- Eleni Stroulia, University of Alberta
- Jeremy Bradbury, Ontario Tech
- Finance Chair
- Hamzeh Khazaei, York University
- Workshops Co-Chairs
- Gias Uddin, York University
- Guy-Vincent Jourdan, University of Ottawa
- Tutorials Co-Chairs
- Robert Enenkel, IBM Canada
- Yuan Tian, Queen's University
- Posters Co-Chairs
- Vio Onut, IBM Canada
- Jinqiu Yang, Concordia University
- Artifacts-Evaluation Co-Chairs
- Marios Fokaefs, York University
- Heng Li, Polytechnique Montreal
- Sponsorship Co-Chairs
- Kelly Lyons, University of Toronto
- Sedef Akinli Kocak, Center of AI and Digital Policy
- Registration Chair
- Ahmad Abdellatif, University of Calgary
- Web Chair
- Shayan Noei, Queen's University
- Proceedings Co-Chairs
- Fatemeh Hendijani Fard, University of British Columbia
- Paria Shirani, University of Ottawa
- Social Media & Publicity Co-Chairs
- Mariam Guizani, Queen's University
- Diego Elias Damasceno Costa, Concordia University
- Local Arrangements Chair
- Song Wang, York University
Venue
CASCON 2025 will be held at York University's Keele campus, which is centrally located in the Greater Toronto Area, Ontario, Canada. The conference will feature world-class keynote speakers, inspiring technical paper presentations, stimulating panels, workforce-building tutorials, community-building workshops, dynamic poster sessions, and terrific networking opportunities.
Looking to get to York’s Keele Campus. Whether you’re coming train schedules for arriving by VIA Rail, Go Transit, or Toronto TTC, driving and riding directions for arriving by car or bike, or transfer options for arriving by plane at Pearson International Airport: https://maps.info.yorku.ca/transit-driving-directions/
Sponsors
IEEE CASCON is financially co-sponsored by the following organizational units: