Submission steps

C&ESAR follows a 3 steps submission process (abstract, proposal, final version). Evaluation and selection is done on the proposal and final version steps. During the proposal step, a selective evaluation is done with a low acceptation rate on a detailed outline of the proposed article (or directly on the final version if a final version is submitted as proposal). During the final version step, an evaluation with a high acceptation rate (high number of articles selected) is done on the final version of the accepted proposals.


  1. Step 1: Abstract Registration (Deadline: Wednesday, May 14, 2025):
    Authors must register the title, author names, and abstract via EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cesar2025).
  2. Step 2: Proposal Submission (Deadline: Wednesday, May 14, 2025):
    Authors submit a detailed outline (2-6 pages) in PDF format via EasyChair. If desired, at this step, authors can already submit a complete paper (up to 16 pages). However, reviewers will not be required to invest more efforts at this stage than they would for a 6 pages proposal.
    Identification requirements:
    • SoK papers’s title must be suffixed with “(SoK)”.
    • Practice papers’s title must be suffixed with “(practice)” .
    • Replication papers must have a title suffixed with “(replication)” and explicitly cite the replicated work.
    • Extended abstracts must have a title suffixed with “(extended abstract)”, explicitly cite the original publications summarized, and provide an appendix containing original reviewer comments if available. If desired, at this stage, authors can submit the PDF of the original article(s) instead of the PDF of a summary.
    • Papers to be considered Work in Progress (WiP) must have a title suffixed with “(WiP)”.
  3. Step 3: Final Version Submission (Deadline: Wednesday, August 27, 2025):
    Authors of preselected papers must submit their final version, which addresses reviewers’ comments, on EasyChair.