Welcome to The 21st IEEE International Conference on Embedded Software and Systems (ICESS-2025).

The 21st IEEE International Conference on Embedded Software and Systems (ICESS) is held in Exeter, England, UK, June 26-28, 2025 International Conference on Embedded Software and Systems (ICESS) is a global forum for researchers and devel¬opers from academia, industry, and government to present and discuss emerging ideas and trends in embedded software and systems. The conference has a broad scope covering the design, implementation, optimization, and validation of embedded software and systems in various domains. With the rapid development of high-performance embedded chips, the computing power of edge devices has been greatly enhanced, enabling the devices to handle computation-intensive tasks in real time. More and more artificial intelligence (Al) applications are migrating to edge computing platforms for ensuring real-time response.The combination of edge computing and Al has given rise to edge intelligence, which is an emerging technology that integrates the core capabilities of network, computing, storage, and applications. Edge intelligence can provide users with high-quality intelligent services more efficiently by deploying intelligent algorithms on edge devices closer to users. Compared with Al models deployed on the cloud, edge intelligence has the advantages of lower power consumption, shorter latency, higher security, and closer to users. Therefore, edge intelligence has become a hot research topic in academia in recent years. In addition, Huawei, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Cisco, and other major global enterprises have also launched their layout on this aspect, in order to accelerate the development of precision agriculture, smart healthcare, smart city, industrial Internet of Things, and other fields and related industries.

The focus of ICESS 2025 is to publish new research outcomes that are furthering the level of current research or otherwise contributing to the overall comprehension of edge intelligence related challenges like Al model deployment, task scheduling, resource management, smart design and optimization, collaborative methodologies, and software and systems solutions.

Prospective authors are invited to submit their papers to ICESS-2025. All accepted papers are expected to be included in IEEE Xplore and will be indexed by Engineering Index (EI). The authors of selected best papers will be invited post conference to extend their contributions for special issues of prestigious journals to be planned in conjunction with the conference.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Track 1: Edge Intelligence

• Embedded systems and software for edge intelligence
• Real-time systems and software for edge intelligence
• Multimodal sensing fusion system and software for edge intelligence
• Al chip design for edge intelligence
• Lightweight Al model design for edge intelligence
• Task scheduling and resource management for edge intelligence
• Low-power and high-reliability designs for edge intelligence
• Embedded Al model training methods
• Al framework design and optimization for edge devices
• Intelligent sensing, interaction, and decision system design
• Edge-edge, edge-cloud, and end-edge-cloud collaborative methodologies
• Model structure optimization, operator optimization, and hardware feature optimization for robotics, UAVs, autonomous driving, etc.
• Other edge intelligence systems and applications

• Embedded System Architecture
• Embedded Software Architectures
• Embedded OS, Scheduling and Runtime Support
• Embedded Storage and I/O Systems
• Real-Time Embedded Systems
• Distributed and Networked Embedded Systems
• Fault Tolerant and Trusted Embedded Systems
• Power and Thermal Aware Computing
• Mixed-Criticality Embedded Systems
• Heterogeneous SoC and Multicore Embedded System
• Reconfigurable Embedded Computing

• Design Technologies of Embedded Systems
• Formal Methods for Embedded Systems
• Middleware for Embedded Systems
• IDE and Software Tools
• Hardware/Software Co-Design
• Component-Based Embedded Software Design
• Model-based Design for Embedded Software
• Domain/Application-Specific Design Techniques
• Testing Techniques for Embedded Software/Systems
• Verification and Validation for Embedded Systems
• Compilation and Debug Techniques and Tools
• Performance Evaluation Techniques and Tools
• Safety of Machine Learning for Embedded Systems

• Intelligent Embedded Systems
• Machine Learning for Embedded Applications
• Internet-of-Things (loT)
• Wearable Computing
• Smart City
• Intelligent Intersection Traffic Signal Control
• Robotics and Control Systemse
• Wireless Sensor Networks
• Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS)
• Assured Autonomy for Safety-Critical CPS
• Automotive and Avionics Systems
• Medical Systems
• Database & Multimedia Systems
• Network Protocols and Security
• Emergency and Disaster Management
• Consumer Electronics - Mobile Cloud Computing and Approximate Computing
• Industrial Practices and Case Studies

All papers need to be submitted electronically through the conference submission website (https://hpcn.exeter.ac.uk/icess/) with PDF format. The materials presented in the papers should not be published or under submission elsewhere. Each paper is limited to 8 pages (or 12 pages with over length charge) including figures and references using IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Manuscripts style (two columns, single-spaced, 10 fonts).

Manuscript Templates for Conference Proceedings can be found at:
https://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html

Once accepted, the paper will be included into the IEEE conference proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society Press (indexed by EI). At least one of the authors of any accepted paper is requested to register the paper at the conference.