QRS 2025 Conference - IEEE International Conference on Software Security and Reliability

About QRS


This year is the 25th anniversary of the QRS Conference. The first edition of the conference was held in Hong Kong, China in 2000 under the name of Asia-Pacific Conference on Quality Software. Since then, the conference has grown significantly. In 2015, the SERE conference (IEEE International Conference on Software Security and Reliability) and the QSIC conference (IEEE International Conference on Quality Software) were combined into a single conference, QRS, with Q representing Quality, R for Reliability, and S for Security. This conference gives engineers and scientists from both industry and academia a platform to present their ongoing work, relate their research outcomes and experiences, and discuss the best and most efficient techniques for the development of reliable, secure, and trustworthy systems. It also represents an excellent opportunity for the academic community to become more aware of subject areas critical to the software industry as practitioners bring their needs to the table. The 25th QRS conference will go back to the country where the first conference was organized. It will be in Hangzhou, China from July 16-20, 2025.

News & Announcements


  • Submissions to the main conference open
  • Statistics of recent QRS
    • Number of submissions
      303 for 2021 (243 regular papers and 60 short papers)
      303 for 2022 (273 regular papers and 30 short papers)
      272 for 2023 (230 regular papers and 42 short papers)
      210 for 2024 (189 regular papers and 21 short papers)
    • Acceptance rate of regular papers
      25.10% for 2021 (61/243)
      27.47% for 2022 (75/273)
      23.47% for 2023 (54/230)
      26.45% for 2024 (50/189)
    The denominators do not include the number of submissions of the short papers.
  • Award for the Most Influential QRS papers will be announced at the banquet
  • Award for best papers will be announced at the banquet
  • Conference website launched

  • Keynote Speaker


    Keynote 1: TBA
    Keynote 2: TBA
    Keynote 3: TBA

    Topics of Interest


    • Reliability, Security, Availability, and Safety of Software Systems
    • AI-based Techniques for Software Quality, Reliability, and Security
    • Machine Learning and Deep Learning Models and Systems
    • Natural Language Processing and Large Language Models
    • Knowledge-based Techniques for Software Quality, Reliability, and Security
    • Software Testing, Verification, and Validation
    • Program Debugging and Comprehension
    • Information and Software Quality Assurance
    • Fault Tolerance for Software Reliability Improvement
    • Modeling, Prediction, Simulation, and Evaluation
    • Metrics, Measurements, and Analysis
    • Software Penetration and Protection
    • Software Vulnerabilities
    • Formal Methods
    • Malware Detection and Analysis
    • Intrusion Detection and Prevention
    • Operating System Security and Reliability
    • IoT, Fuzzy Systems, Cyber-Physical Systems, and Industry 4.0
    • Mobile and Smartphone Applications
    • Cloud Computing and Smart City
    • Information and Knowledge Management
    • Secure and Reliable Storage
    • Benchmark, Tools, Industrial Applications, and Empirical Studies

    Sponsor

    Southwest Jiaotong University

    Technical Sponsor

    IEEE Reliability Society

    Conference Patrons

    Beihang University
    University of Leicester
    Huawei
    Zhejiang University
    NJUIST
    Beijing High Quality of System Technology Ltd.
    Mooctest
    JSCS