Call for Contributions - ICWE 2025

The 25th International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE 2025) is the premier annual conference on Web Engineering and associated technologies. It will be held in Delft, Netherlands, from June 30 to July 3, 2025.

General Theme

The 25th edition of ICWE particularly invites contributions under the following general theme:
The Inclusive Web: Realizing Safe, Accessible, Inclusive, and Sustainable Web Engineering
This theme focuses on designing innovative Web technology that is fair, ethical, transparent, privacy-preserving, trustworthy, and inclusive for all. Contributions on any other topic related to Web Engineering are also welcome.

Topics of Interest

ICWE 2025 accepts contributions on a wide spectrum of topics related to Web Engineering, including but not limited to:

• Safety, Inclusivity, and accessibility for the Web
• Fair and explainable web technologies
• Human-Centered vs. More-than-Human web
• Conversational web
• Fake news, misinformation, and online toxicity
• Web security, identity, trust and privacy engineering
• Participatory and deliberative web
• Web application modeling and engineering
• Web infrastructures and architectures
• Web of things, social web and mobile web applications
• Web mining, knowledge extraction and analytics of big data on the Web
• Machine learning, AI and large-language models for web engineering
• Web user interfaces and UX
• User modeling and web-based recommender systems
• Quality aspects of web applications
• Performance, scalability, energy-efficiency and sustainability aspects of web applications
• Semantic web, knowledge graphs, web ontologies, and linked open-data applications
• Web crowdsourcing and human computation
• Web composition and mashups
• Web services, Microservice architecture, computing, workflows, and standards
• Architecting the Web in the cloud continuum, e.g. cloud, fog, edge and server-less computing for Web applications
• Web engineering processes, practices, experience and paradigms, e.g. Agile, Lean
• Re-decentralization of the web
• Web standards and disruptive web technologies
• Comparisons, data sets, empirical studies of web technologies
• Web programming languages, tools and frameworks

Submission Tracks and Deadlines

All dates are according to the time zone “Anywhere on Earth”, i.e., UTC-12.

Research & Industry Track (Full/Short papers)

• Original Abstract submission: February 6, 2025
• Original Paper submission: February 13, 2025
• Extended Abstract submission: February 13, 2025
• Extended Paper submission: February 20, 2025
• Author notification: April 3, 2025
• Camera-ready due: May 1, 2025

Posters and Demos Track

• Submission deadline: April 9, 2025
• Extended Submission deadline: April 16, 2025
• Author notification: April 30, 2025
• Camera-ready due: May 6, 2025

Workshops Track

• Submission of proposals: February 14, 2025
• Author notification: February 21, 2025
• Workshop paper submission deadline: April 19, 2025
• Notification deadline: May 11, 2025
• Workshop Day: June 23, 2025 (tentative)
• Post-proceedings camera-ready deadline: July 30, 2025

Tutorials Track

• Submission deadline: February 13, 2025
• Author notification: April 3, 2025
• Camera-ready due: May 1, 2025

PhD Symposium Track

• Submission deadline: March 27, 2025
• Author notification: April 3, 2025
• Camera-ready due: April 8, 2025
• Extended Camera-ready due: April 15, 2025

Contribution Types

• Regular papers (up to 6-10 pages) [in the proceedings, digital library]
• Short papers (work in progress) (up to 4 pages long) [in the proceedings, digital library]
• Ideas contributions (2 pages long) [in the proceedings, digital library]
• Extended abstracts (2 pages long) [in the proceedings, digital library]
• Posters (paper-based) (2 pages long) [in the proceedings, digital library]
• Posters (slide-based, only) [slide-deck posted on www.iaria.org]
• Presentations (slide-based, only) [slide-deck posted on www.iaria.org]
• Demos (2 pages) [posted on www.iaria.org]

Submission Guidelines

• Contributions should be submitted via the conference website. Specific links for each track are available: Call for Contributions
• Accepted contributions will be included in the ICWE 2025 Springer LNCS proceedings.
• Only .pdf or .doc files will be accepted for paper submission.
• Final author manuscripts for regular papers should not exceed 6 pages; max 4 extra pages are allowed at additional cost.

Publication

• Accepted contributions will be included in the ICWE 2025 Springer LNCS proceedings.
• The best papers will be selected to be proposed, in extended form, as part of a special issue of the Journal of Web Engineering.

Registration

Registration is open. Please visit the Registration Details page for more information.