AgenticSE

AgenticSE workshop

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Autonomous agents powered by Large Language Models are reshaping software engineering, enabling AI systems that plan, code, test, and deploy with less human intervention. Despite rapid progress and growing industry interest, the Software Engineering community lacks a dedicated venue to explore these developments. The Autonomous Agents in Software Engineering (AgenticSE) workshop aims to fill this gap by bringing together researchers and practitioners to discuss agentic architectures, applications in code generation, testing, DevOps, human-agent collaboration, and evaluation. AgenticSE is a timely and essential step toward building a community around this transformative and underexplored direction in software engineering.

Organizing Committee

mali
Maliheh Izadi, TU Delft
michael
Michael Pradel, Stuttgart
satish
Satish Chandra, Google

Target Audience

  • Software Engineering (SE): researchers and practitioners interested in AI-driven development, automation, program analysis, testing, maintenance, and DevOps.

  • Artificial Intelligence (AI): those working on LLMs, planning agents, multi-agent systems, and human-AI interaction.

  • Programming Languages (PL): experts in program synthesis, static analysis, compilers, and formal methods who can explore how agents reason about code and specifications.

  • Human-Computer Interaction (HCI): researchers studying how developers interact with AI assistants/agents, UX design for AI agents, and cognitive implications of AI partners. Systems and DevOps: practitioners in CI/CD and software infrastructure interested in autonomous agents for environment setup, deployment, monitoring, and optimization.

We expect a mix of academia and industry attendees. Industrial participation is highly encouraged (e.g., teams building AI-powered developer tools and intelligent IDEs, autonomous bots in DevOps workflows, or automated project management). By drawing from multiple communities (AI, SE, PL, HCI), the workshop promotes diverse viewpoints and networking among groups that do not often overlap, seeding a new collaborative community.

Format and Dates

Types of submissions include full papers, short papers, and late-breaking talk-only (extended abstract) submissions:

  • Long papers = 8 pages (inclduing references) in IEEEtran two-column formatting
  • Short papers = 4 pages (inclduing references) in IEEEtran two-column formatting

  • Talk-only: Text-only abstract, without a formal publication

  • Paper submission: Aug 22nd, 2025 Aug 26th, 2025, 23:59 AOE
  • Notification Date: Sep 25th, 2025, 23:59 AOE
  • Camera-ready deadline: Oct 5th, 2025, 23:59 AOE

Topics of Interest

Topics of Interest include, but are not limited to:

  • Architectures and frameworks for autonomous software engineering agents
  • Multi-agent collaboration in software development environments
  • LLM-powered autonomous development and debugging assistants
  • Self-improving and self-repairing software systems
  • Automated requirements elicitation and refinement via agents
  • Autonomous testing, verification, and validation strategies
  • Human–agent interaction and collaboration in SE workflows
  • Safety, reliability, and trust in agentic software engineering tools
  • Evaluation metrics and benchmarks for autonomous SE agents
  • Ethical, legal, and societal implications of agentic SE tools
  • Case studies and industrial experiences with autonomous agents in SE
  • Tool demonstrations and experimental platforms for agentic SE

Review Procedure

All submitted papers will undergo peer-review process. Each paper will be reviewed by at least 3 PC members to ensure multiple perspectives. We will follow a double-blind reviewing process. Reviewers will evaluate submissions based on relevance to the workshop, technical quality, novelty/originality, and potential to stimulate discussion. Position and vision papers might be judged more on insightfulness and relevance than on new results, given the emerging nature of the field.

Program Committee

Name Affiliation Country
Ahmed Hassan Queen’s University Canada
Ankit Agrawal Saint Louis University USA
Chao Peng ByteDance China
Christoph Treude Singapore Management University Singapore
Gustavo Soares Microsoft USA
He Ye University of College London UK
Iftekhar Ahmed University Of California, Irvine USA
Ipek Ozkaya Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute USA
Islem Bouzenia University of Stuttgart Germany
Jie M. Zhang King’s College London UK
Jingxuan He UC Berkeley USA
Jonathan Katzy Delft University of Technology Netherlands
Jürgen Cito TU Wien Austria
Qinghua Lu CSIRO New Zealand
Sarah D’Angelo Google Australia
Timofey Bryksin JetBrains Research Cyprus
Tse-Hsun (Peter) Chen Concordia University Canada
Yiling Lou Fudan University China
Ziyou Li Delft University of Technology Netherlands

Support Team

mehdi
Mehdi Keshani, Proceeding Chair
razvan
Razvan Popescu, Web Chair
roham
Roham Koohestani, Web Chair

Publication of Proceedings

We intend for accepted papers to be published in the ASE 2025 workshop proceedings. ASE workshop track home: https://conf.researchr.org/track/ase-2025/ase-2025-workshops.

Submission site: https://agenticse2025.hotcrp.com/

For more info or questions reach out to m[dot]izadi[at]tudelft.nl