📢 Call for Papers
1st International Workshop on Explainable Automated Software Engineering (Ex-ASE 2025)
Co-located with the 40th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2025)
Seoul, Republic of Korea – November 16–20, 2025
More about ASE 2025: https://conf.researchr.org/home/ase-2025

As software systems become increasingly autonomous, the need for explainability across the entire software engineering lifecycle has never been more critical. Ex-ASE aims to bring together researchers and practitioners to foster a cross-cutting community at the intersection of automation and human-centered software engineering— from requirements and architecture to testing, deployment, and adaptive systems.

📅 Important Dates
Paper Submission Deadline: August 18, 2025 (an extension may be considered)
Acceptance Notification: September 26, 2025
Revised Version: October 5, 2025
Workshop: November 16–20, 2025
🎯 Topics of Interest
Explainability in requirements engineering, traceability, and software design
Explanations for automated testing, static/dynamic analysis, and program repair
Human-in-the-loop explainability for automated development workflows
Context-aware and stakeholder-specific explanation generation
Tool support for explaining model-driven or AI-based automation
Evaluation methods and metrics for explanation quality and impact
Explainability in SE4AI and AI4SE approaches
Explanations in software-dependent domains: CPS, IoT, robotics, digital health
Legal, ethical, and societal aspects of software transparency and accountability
Case studies and applications
All accepted papers will be included in the ASE 2025 conference proceedings and indexed in the ACM/IEEE Digital Library.

For submission guidelines and additional details, please visit our website:
👉 https://exase.github.io/2025