The Bench conference has hosted 16 successful versions as the BenchCouncil Symposium on Benchmarking, Measuring and Optimizing. This year, we have rebranded it as a cutting-edge conference on Evaluation Science and Engineering, fully aligned with the mission of the International Open Benchmark Council (BenchCouncil). Evaluation is an essential human activity universally present. The discipline of Evaluation Science and Engineering (Evaluatology), pioneered by BenchCouncil, aims to develop comprehensive, rigorous, and scientific evaluation methodologies - transcending ad-hoc or empirical approaches.

Bench 2025 upholds this mission. It is an interdisciplinary international symposium seeking contributions from various domains including computer science, AI, medicine, education, finance, psychology, business, and more. We particularly welcome state-of-the-practice work, crucial for bridging research and real-world impact.

Bench 2025 welcomes both full and short paper submissions. The review process follows a strict double-blind policy per the established Bench conference norms. The submissions will be judged based on the merit of the ideas rather than the length. After the conference, the proceedings will be published by Springer LNCS (Pending, Indexed by EI). Extended versions of selected outstanding papers will be invited to BenchCouncil Transactions on Benchmarks, Standards and Evaluations (May 2025 CiteScore: 16). To ensure a clear and concise focus on evaluation issues, please refer to "A Short Summary of Evaluatology: The Science and Engineering of Evaluation, J. F. Zhan, BenchCouncil Transactions on Benchmarks, Standards, and Evaluations. "