Call for Papers: The 24th Belgium-Netherlands Software Evolution Workshop 17–18 November 2025, Enschede, The Netherlands (https://benevol2025.github.io/)
The goal of BENEVOL is to bring together researchers who are working in the field of software evolution and maintenance. BENEVOL offers an informal forum to meet and discuss new ideas, relevant problems, and fresh research results.
Submission Categories • Cutting-edge Original Research on Evolution (CORE). Full-length technical papers presenting original research which has been already empirically or formally validated. We also welcome papers in the early stages of their development that would benefit from feedback from the community. • Disruptive Ideas and Visionary Explorations (DIVE). We welcome position papers presenting new and potentially controversial software maintenance and evolution perspectives. Such papers may not have an evaluation, though illustrative examples and cases are welcome. • Reproduced, Examined, or Analysed Papers (REAP). The growing complexity and size of software systems combined with the rise of machine learning for maintenance and evolution tasks makes replicability challenging. We invite replication efforts of existing papers, describing successes (replicated), difficulties (invalidated), or refinements (of any kind). This category extends to new negative results, which are key to narrowing down hypotheses. • Summary of Highlights and Outstanding Work (SHOW). Presentation abstracts, progress reports, research results without inclusion in the proceedings. SHOW papers cover research that has already been accepted for publication, is being reviewed to be published, or is almost ready to be submitted to a conference or a journal.
Pages and Prospects • CORE & REAP Papers: 10 to 12 pages of main text + an unlimited number of pages for references and appendices; to be invited to post-proceedings as full papers. • DIVE Papers: Maximum 5 pages + 4 pages for references and appendices; to be invited to post-proceedings as full or short papers. • SHOW Papers: Maximum 2 pages, including references; not to be included in the post-proceedings.
Important Dates Below, you can find the important dates. Please note that all dates are in the Anywhere on Earth (AoE, 23:59) calendar designation. • Submission Deadline: Fri 26 September 2025 • Author Notification Deadline: Fri 24 October 2025 • Author Registration Deadline: Sat 1 November 2025 • Camera-Ready Deadline: Sat 1 November 2025 • Workshop Date: Mon–Tue 17–18 November 2025
Papers should be submitted via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=benevol2025 Proceedings shall be submitted to CEUR-WS.org for online publication.