CCF BSoftware Engineering and PL2022: BPublisher: IEEE/ ACM
ESEMInternational Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement
ESEM is a rank B conference in Software Engineering, System Software and Programming Languages in the CCF list's 7th edition (2026), as in 2022. ESEM 2026 took place on Oct 8–9, 2026 in München, Germany. Acceptance rate 2025: 19.3% (28/145).
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Data updated 8 November 2026 · rank from the CCF list's 7th edition
Latest edition
ESEM 2026: call for papers timeline
- May 12, 2026, 11:59 UTCAbstractCommunity data · unverified
- May 19, 2026, 11:59 UTC
- Oct 8–9, 2026Local timeConferenceMünchen, Germany
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Past editions
Dates, venues, deadlines and acceptance rates
| Year | Paper deadline | Acceptance | Papers (dblp) | Dates | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 2026-05-18AoE | — | 96 | Oct 8–9, 2026 | München, Germany |
| 2025 | 2025-04-25AoE | 19.3%28/145 · source | 58 | Oct 2–3, 2025 | Honolulu, Hawai, USA |
| 2024 | 2024-05-06AoE | — | 66 | Oct 24–25, 2024 | Barcelona, Spain |
| 2023 | 2023-05-02AoE | 32.6%42/129 · source | 37 | Oct 26–27, 2023 | New Orleans, Louisiana, USA |
| 2022 | 2022-05-02AoE | — | 31 | Sep 22–23, 2022 | Helsinki, Finland |
| 2021 | 2021-05-15AoE | 19.4%24/124 · source | 38 | Oct 12–15, 2021 | Virtual |
| 2020 | — | — | 43 | — | — |
| 2019 | — | — | 48 | — | — |
| 2018 | — | — | 58 | — | — |
| 2017 | — | — | 61 | — | — |
| 2016 | — | — | 58 | — | — |
Paper counts are dblp's main proceedings only, without workshop volumes; acceptance rates link to the page they come from. dblp ↗
CCF list
ESEM in the CCF list
- 7th edition (2026)
- CCF B Software Engineering, System Software and Programming Languages · no. 17
- 6th edition (2022)
- CCF B Software Engineering, System Software and Programming Languages
- Name in the list
- International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement
- Publisher
- IEEE/ ACM
- dblp
- conf/esem ↗
CCF counts the full (regular) papers of a listed conference: short papers, demos, technical briefs, summaries, Findings and the workshops held with a conference are outside the list. CCF also says the list is a recommendation and should not be used on its own to evaluate research; your institution's rules decide. What counts, case by case →
FAQ
About ESEM
What CCF rank is ESEM?
ESEM is a rank B conference in Software Engineering, System Software and Programming Languages in the CCF list's 7th edition (2026), as in 2022.
Where is ESEM 2026?
ESEM 2026 took place on Oct 8–9, 2026 in München, Germany.
What is the ESEM acceptance rate?
2025: 145 submissions, 28 accepted, 19.3%. 2023: 32.6% (42/129). The history table links each figure to its source.
Do ESEM workshop and short papers count as CCF B?
CCF counts the full (regular) papers of a listed conference: short papers, demos, technical briefs, summaries, Findings and the workshops held with a conference are outside the list. CCF also says the list is a recommendation and should not be used on its own to evaluate research; your institution's rules decide.
In more detail: Which CCF conference papers count · How to read conference deadlines
Sources: the CCF list of recommended international conferences and journals, 7th edition (published 31 March 2026, corrected 9 April 2026) and 6th edition (2022); editions, deadlines and acceptance rates from the ccf-deadlines community project (MIT licence), marked as community data until checked against each conference's website, then marked as checked with the website's own words; proceedings and paper counts from dblp (CC0).