LCTES 2025: Call for Papers

The 26th ACM SIGPLAN/SIGBED International Conference on Languages, Compilers, Tools and Theory of Embedded Systems (LCTES 2025) solicits papers presenting original work on programming languages, compilers, tools, theory, and architectures that help in overcoming challenges in embedded systems.

LCTES 2025 is co-located with PLDI 2025 in Seoul, South Korea.

Important Dates

• Abstract Submission: March 14, 2025 (soft, new submission is open until March 21, 2025)
• Paper Submission: March 21, 2025 (extended firm deadline)
• Paper Notification: April 21, 2025
• Artifact Evaluation Submission: April 28, 2025
• Artifact Evaluation Notification: May 9, 2025
• Camera-Ready Submission: May 12, 2025
• Conference Dates: June 16–17, 2025

Paper Categories

• Full paper: 10 pages presenting original work (at most 2 additional pages for references and appendix).
• Poster, work-in-progress and invited paper: 4 pages papers presenting original ideas that are likely to trigger interesting discussions.

Accepted papers in both categories will appear in the proceedings published by ACM. In addition, this year’s LCTES will have Distinguished Paper awards selected from this year’s accepted paper to recognize the outstanding work among all papers.

Submission Guidelines

Submissions must be in ACM SIGPLAN subformat of the acmart format (available at https://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Author/). Each paper should be in 10pt font and have no more than 10 pages for full papers or 4 pages for work-in-progress papers, excluding the bibliography. There is a 2-page limit on the page count for references. Each reference must list all authors of the paper (do not use et al.). The citations should be in numeric style, e.g., [52]. Submissions must be in PDF format and printable on US Letter and A4-sized paper. For papers in the work-in-progress category, add the suffix “(WIP)” to your title, such as “Title (WIP)”.

To enable double-blind reviewing, submissions must adhere to two rules:

• author names and their affiliations must be omitted; and,
• references to related work by the authors should be in the third person (e.g., not “We build on our previous work …” but rather “We build on the work of …”).

Papers must describe unpublished work that is not currently submitted for publication elsewhere.

Authors of accepted papers will be required to sign an ACM copyright release.

Submission Site

https://lctes2025.hotcrp.com

Topics of Interest

Original contributions are solicited on the topics of interest including, but not limited to:

• Programming language challenges
• Compiler challenges
• Tools for analysis, specification, design, and implementation
• Theory and foundations of embedded systems
• Novel embedded architectures
• Mobile systems and IoT
• Large language models (LLMs) and programming languages/compilers
• Program analysis, testing and verification for LLM

Special Issue Invitation

Accepted full papers will be invited to submit to a special issue of the ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (TECS). A TECS publication will require substantial additional material over the conference publication and will undergo a separate review process. Papers submitted to LCTES (including the WIP papers) will be welcome to submit manuscripts to a special issue of the IEEE Embedded Systems Letters (IEEE ESL). A 4-page IEEE ESL manuscript will require clearly distinct intellectual contribution as compared to the conference paper and will undergo a separate review process.