International Conference on Software Engineering


The International Conference on Software Engineering is one of the largest annual software engineering conferences. It has an 'A*' rating in the of the and an 'A1' rating from the Brazilian ministry of education. Furthermore, it is the software engineering conference with the highest Microsoft Academic field rating. The first ICSE conference was in 1975 in Washington DC.

List of Conferences

Past and future ICSE conferences include:
YearConferenceCity, CountryGeneral ChairProgram ChairNotes
2029ICSE 51Tokyo, JapanHironori Washizaki, Waseda University, and Jianjun Zhao, Kyushu University
2028ICSE 50Hawaii, USARick Kazman, University of Hawaii
2027ICSE 49Dublin, IrelandBrian Fitzgerald, University of Limerick
2026Rio de Janeiro, BrazilMarcos Kalinowski, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro
2025Ottawa, CanadaTim Lethbridge, University of Ottawa, and Lionel Briand, University of Ottawa and LERO (Ireland)
2024Lisbon, PortugalRui Maranhao Abreu and Ana C. R. Paiva, University of Porto
2023Melbourne, AustraliaJohn Grundy, Monash University
2022Pittsburgh, USMatthew Dwyer, University of Virginia
2021Online due to pandemic, instead of Madrid, SpainNatalia Juristo, Technical University of Madrid
2020Online due to pandemic, instead of Seoul, South KoreaGregg Rothermel, North Carolina State University and Doo-Hwan Bae, KAIST
2019Montreal, CanadaJoanne M. Atlee, University of Waterloo
2018Gothenburg, SwedenIvica Crnkovic, Chalmers University of Technology and University of Gothenburg
2017Buenos Aires, ArgentinaSebastián Uchitel, University of Buenos Aires
2016Austin, USLaura K. Dillon, Michigan State University
2015Florence, ItalyAntonia Bertolino, Italian National Research Council (CNR), Pisa
2014Hyderabad, IndiaPankaj Jalote, IIIT Delhi
2013 San Francisco, USDavid Notkin, University of Washington
2012Zürich, SwitzerlandMartin Glinz, University of ZürichGail Murphy, Mauro Pezzè
2011Honolulu, USRichard Taylor, University of California, Irvine
2010Cape Town, South AfricaJudith Bishop, University of Pretoria, South Africa and Jeff Kramer, Imperial College London, UKPrem Devanbu, Sebastián Uchitel
2009Vancouver, CanadaStephen Fickas, University of Oregon, US
2008Leipzig, GermanyWilhelm Schäfer, Paderborn University, Germany
2007Minneapolis, USJohn Knight, University of Virginia, US
2006Shanghai, ChinaLeon Osterweil, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USDieter Rombach, Mary Lou Soffa
2005St. Louis, USGruia-Catalin Roman, Washington University in St. Louis, US
2004Edinburgh, UKAnthony Finkelstein, University College London, UK
2003Portland, USLori Clarke, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USLaurie Dillon, Walter Tichy
2002Orlando, USWill Tracz, Lockheed Martin Systems Integration, Owego, US
2001Toronto, CanadaHausi A. Müller, University of Victoria, Canada
2000Limerick, IrelandCarlo Ghezzi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
1999ICSE 21Los Angeles, USBarry Boehm, University of Southern California, US
1998ICSE 20Kyoto, JapanKoji Torii, NAIST, JapanRichard Kemmerer, Kokichi Futatsugi
1997Boston, USW. Richards Adrion, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, US
1996ICSE 18Berlin, Germany, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
1995Seattle, USDewayne Perry, Bell Labs, US
1994ICSE 16Sorrento, ItalyBruno Fadini, Università degli Studi di Napoli Frederico II, Italy
1993ICSE 15Baltimore, USVictor R. Basili, University of Maryland, US
1992ICSE 14Melbourne, AustraliaTony Montgomery, RMIT University, Australia
1991ICSE 13Austin, USLes Belady, Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation, US
1990ICSE 12Nice, FranceFrançois-Regis Valette, ONER-CERT, France
1989ICSE 11Pittsburgh, USLarry Druffel, Software Engineering Institute, US
1988ICSE 10Raffles City, SingaporeTan Chin Nam, Infocomm Media Development Authority, SingaporeLarry Druffel, Software Engineering Institute, US, Bertrand Meyer, Eiffel Software, US-
1987ICSE 9Monterey, USWilliam E. Riddle, Software Productivity Consortium, US
1985ICSE 8London, UKManny M. Lehman, Imperial College, London, UK
1984ICSE 7Orlando, UST. Straeter, General Dynamics Electronics, San Diego, US
1982ICSE 6Tokyo, JapanYutaka Ohno, Japan; Koji Kobayashi, Japan; Raymond T. Yeh, University of Maryland, US
1981ICSE 5San Diego, USSeymour Jeffrey, National Institute of Standards and Technology, US
1979ICSE 4Munich, GermanyFriedrich (Fritz) L. Bauer, Technische Universität München, West GermanySponsors: ACM SIGSOFT, European Research Office, German Informatics Society, and IEEE Computer Society.