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ICSOFT is sponsored by INSTICC – Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication

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The purpose of the International Conference on Software Technologies, is to bring together researchers, engineers and practitioners interested on software technologies. The conference areas are "Software Engineering and Systems Development", "Software Systems and Applications" and "Foundational and Trigger Technologies".



Papers describing original work are invited in any of the areas listed below. Accepted papers, presented at the conference by one of the authors, will be published in the Proceedings of ICSOFT with an ISBN. Acceptance will be based on quality, relevance and originality. Both full research reports and work-in-progress reports are welcome. There will be both oral and poster sessions.



Special sessions, dedicated to case-studies and commercial presentations, as well as tutorials dedicated to technical/scientific topics are also envisaged: companies interested in presenting their products/methodologies or researchers interested in holding a tutorial, workshop or special session are invited to contact the conference secretariat or visit the conference website.

CONFERENCE AREAS

Each of these topic areas is expanded below but the sub-topics list is not exhaustive. Papers may address one or more of the listed sub-topics, although authors should not feel limited by them. Unlisted but related sub-topics are also acceptable, provided they fit in one of the following main topic areas:

1. SOFTWARE ENGINEERING AND SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT
2. SOFTWARE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS
3. FOUNDATIONAL AND TRIGGER TECHNOLOGIES


AREA 1: SOFTWARE ENGINEERING AND SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT


  • Agile Development
  • Architectural Design, Refactoring and Patterns
  • Automated Software Engineering
  • Data-Driven Software Engineering
  • DevOps Practices
  • Empirical Software Engineering
  • Formal Methods
  • Low-Code and No-Code Platforms
  • Mobile and Cross Platform Development
  • Model-Driven Software Engineering
  • Open Source Development
  • People Management
  • Process Modeling
  • Programming Frameworks and Platforms
  • Project Management
  • Quality Management
  • Requirements Engineering
  • Risk Management
  • Software and Systems Modeling
  • Software Development Lifecycle
  • Software Engineering Tools
  • Software Project Planning and Tracking
  • Testing and Testability
  • User-Centered Design

AREA 2: SOFTWARE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS


  • Agent and Multi-Agent Systems
  • AI-powered Healthcare Applications
  • Application Software
  • Complex Systems
  • Cyber-Physical Systems
  • Data Mining and Data Analysis
  • Decision Support Systems
  • Embedded Systems
  • Enterprise Systems and Applications
  • Government and Social Applications
  • Intelligent Systems and Applications
  • Mobile Apps
  • Real-Time Systems
  • Robotics and Autonomous Systems
  • Software Product Line
  • System Software
  • Web Systems and Applications

AREA 3: FOUNDATIONAL AND TRIGGER TECHNOLOGIES


  • Artificial intelligence and machine learning
  • Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality
  • Big Data and Data Science
  • Blockchain Technology
  • Cloud Computing
  • Cybersecurity Technologies
  • Edge Computing
  • High Performance Computing
  • Image Processing and Computer Vision
  • Information Age and Digital Revolution
  • Internet of Things
  • Mobile Technologies
  • Natural Language Technologies
  • Network and Data Communications
  • Web Technologies

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

ICSOFT 2026 will have several invited keynote speakers, who are internationally recognized experts in their areas. Their names are not yet confirmed.

PAPER SUBMISSION

Authors can submit their work in the form of a complete paper or an abstract, but please note that accepted abstracts are presented but not published in the proceedings of the conference. Complete papers can be submitted as a Regular Paper, representing completed and validated research, or as a Position Paper, portraying a short report of work in progress or an arguable opinion about an issue discussing ideas, facts, situations, methods, procedures or results of scientific research focused on one of the conference topic areas.

Authors should submit a paper in English, carefully checked for correct grammar and spelling, addressing one or several of the conference areas or topics. Each paper should clearly indicate the nature of its technical/scientific contribution, and the problems, domains or environments to which it is applicable. To facilitate the double-blind paper evaluation method, authors are kindly requested to produce and provide the paper WITHOUT any reference to any of the authors, including the authors’ personal details, the acknowledgments section of the paper and any other reference that may disclose the authors’ identity.

When submitting a complete paper please note that only original papers should be submitted. Authors are advised to read INSTICC's ethical norms regarding plagiarism and self-plagiarism thoroughly before submitting and must make sure that their submissions do not substantially overlap work which has been published elsewhere or simultaneously submitted to a journal or another conference with proceedings. Papers that contain any form of plagiarism will be rejected without reviews. Authors should also avoid using an excessive number of self-citations and an excessive number of co-authors.

All papers must be submitted through the online submission platform PRIMORIS and should follow the instructions and templates that can be found under Guidelines and Templates. After the paper submission has been successfully completed, authors will receive an automatic confirmation e-mail.

PUBLICATIONS

All accepted complete papers will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, on paper and on digital support.
SCITEPRESS is a member of CrossRef (http://www.crossref.org/) and every paper on our digital library is given a DOI (Digital Object Identifier).
The proceedings will be submitted for indexation by SCOPUS, Google Scholar, DBLP, Semantic Scholar, EI and Web of Science / Conference Proceedings Citation Index.

IMPORTANT DATES

Conference Date: 16 - 18 July, 2026

Paper Submission: March 3, 2026
Authors Notification:
April 30, 2026
Camera Ready and Registration:
May 15, 2026

Paper Submission: April 16, 2026
Authors Notification:
May 22, 2026
Camera Ready and Registration:
June 5, 2026

Workshops
Workshop Proposal: March 18, 2026

Special Sessions
Special Session Proposal: March 18, 2026

Tutorials
Tutorial Proposal: June 12, 2026

Demos
Demo Proposal: June 12, 2026

Panels
Panel Proposal: June 12, 2026

SECRETARIAT

ICSOFT Secretariat
Address: Avenida de S. Francisco Xavier, Lote 7 Cv. C
             2900-616 Setúbal - Portugal
Tel.: +351 265 520 185
Fax: +351 265 520 186
e-mail: icsoft.secretariat@insticc.org
Web: https://icsoft.scitevents.org

VENUE

The conference will take place at the Vila Galé Porto hotel which is located in the beautiful and historical city of Porto in Portugal. Porto is considered to be one of the most beautiful historical towns in Portugal, with its remarkable architectural heritage shaped by history.

CONFERENCE CHAIR

Leszek MaciaszekMacquarie Univ., Australia and Wroclaw Univ. of Economics and Business, Poland

PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS

Massimo MecellaDipartimento di Ingegneria Informatica Automatica e Gestionale, Sapienza - University of Rome, Italy
Oksana NikiforovaRiga Technical University, Latvia

PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Muhammad Ovais Ahmad, Karlstad University, Sweden
Paulo Alencar, University Waterloo, Canada
Davide Ancona, Università di Genova, Italy
Doo-Hwan Bae, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea, Republic of
Bernhard Bauer, University of Augsburg , Germany
Jorge Bernardino, Polytechnic University of Coimbra, Portugal
Lorenzo Bettini, DISIA, Univ. Firenze, Italy
Dominique Blouin, Telecom Paris, France
Christoph Bockisch, Philipp University of Marburg, Germany
Boyan Bontchev, Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”, Bulgaria
Fernando Brito e Abreu, ISTAR/ISCTE-IUL, Portugal
Alessio Bucaioni, Maelardalen University, Sweden
Alena Buchalcevova, University of Economics, Czech Republic
Thomas Buchmann, Hof University, Germany
Alejandro Calderón, University of Cádiz, Spain
Rafael Capilla, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain
Josep Maria Carmona Leyva, Independent Researcher, Spain
Ana Castillo, Universidad de Alcalá, Spain
Anis Charfi, CMU, Qatar
DeJiu Chen, School of Industrial Engineering and Management (ITM), KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Yoonsik Cheon, University of Texas at El Paso, United States
Alberto Coen-Porisini, Università degli Studi dell'Insubria, Italy
Estrela Ferreira Cruz, Instituto Politecnico de Viana do Castelo, Portugal
Lidia López Cuesta, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
João Cunha, Polytechnic of Coimbra, Coimbra Institute of Engineering, Portugal
Francisco Dantas, Universidade do Estado do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
Sergiu Dascalu, University of Nevada, United States
Cléver Ricardo Guareis de Farias, University of São Paulo, Brazil
Giuseppe Antonio Di Lucca, University of Sannio Benevento, Italy
Marcos Didonet Del Fabro, Universite Paris-Saclay, CEA, France
Liliana Dobrica, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania
Vladimir Estivill, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
Letha Etzkorn, University of Alabama in Huntsville, United States
João Pascoal Faria, FEUP - Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto, Portugal
João Eduardo Ferreira, University of São Paulo, Brazil
Peter Fettke, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) and Saarland University, Germany
Hector Florez, Universidad Distrital Francisco Jose de Caldas, Colombia
Masahiro Fujita, University of Tokyo, Japan
Maria Ganzha, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
Kehan Gao, Eastern Connecticut State University, United States
Vinicius Cardoso Garcia, Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil
Baltasar García Perez-Schofield, University of Vigo, Spain
Cigdem Gencel Ambrosini, Independent Researcher, Italy
Sébastien Gérard, CEA, France
Claudio Geyer, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Giovanni Giachetti, Universidad Andrés Bello, Chile
Paola Giannini, University of Piemonte Orientale, Italy
Jose Gonzalez, University of Seville, Spain
Gregor Grambow, Hochschule Aalen, Germany
Jean Hauck, Departamento de Informatica e Estatistica, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil
Mercedes Hidalgo-Herrero, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Andreas Holzinger, Medical University Graz, Austria
Jang-Eui Hong, Chungbuk National University, Korea, Republic of
Lennart Johnsson, University of Houston, United States
Hermann Kaindl, TU Wien, Austria
Diana Caroline Kirk, The University of Auckland, New Zealand
Alexander Knapp, Universität Augsburg, Germany
Jun Kong, North Dakota State University, United States
Rob Kusters, Open Universiteit Nederland, Netherlands
Giuseppe Lami, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy
Claude Laporte, École de Technologie Supérieure, Canada
Konstantin Läufer, Loyola University Chicago, United States
Paul Leger, Universidad Catolica del Norte, Chile
Patricio Letelier, Technical University of Valencia, Spain
David Lorenz, Open University, Israel
Daniel Lucrédio, UFSCar - Federal University of São Carlos, Brazil
Ivan Lukovic, University of Belgrade, Faculty of Organizational Sciences, Serbia
Wissam Mallouli, Montimage, France
Federico Mari, University of Rome Foro Italico, Italy
Raul Mazo, ENSTA Bretagne, France
Manuel Mazzara, Innopolis University, Russian Federation
Antoni Lluís Mesquida Calafat, Universitat de les Illes Balears (UIB), Spain
Ali Mili, NJIT, United States
Mª Ángeles Moraga, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
Henry Muccini, University of L’Aquila, Italy
Paolo Nesi, University of Florence, Italy
Alex Norta, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia
Toacy Cavalcante de Oliveira, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Mourad Oussalah, Laboratoire Lina CNRS Fre 2729, University of Nantes, France
Marcin Paprzycki, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Andras Pataricza, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
Angelo Perkusich, UFCG/VIRTUS, Brazil
Dana Petcu, West University of Timisoara, Romania
Ernesto Pimentel, University of Malaga, Spain
Mohammad Mehdi Pourhashem Kallehbasti, University of Science and Technology of Mazandaran, Behshahr, Iran, Islamic Republic of
Adam Przybylek, J.E. Cairnes School of Business & Economics, University of Galway, Ireland
Rosario Pugliese, Universita' di Firenze, Italy
Francesco Quaglia, Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy
Stefano Quer, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Andres Rodriguez, LIFIA, Facultad de Informática, UNLP, Argentina
Ignacio García Rodríguez De Guzmán, University of Castilla-la Mancha, Spain
Colette Rolland, Université De Paris1 Panthèon Sorbonne, France
Jose Raul Romero, University of Cordoba, Spain
Philippe Roose, LIUPPA/IUT de Bayonne/UPPA, France
Chanchal Roy, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
Gwen Salaün, Grenoble INP, Inria, France
Nickolas S. Sapidis, University of Western Macedonia, Greece
Ichiro Satoh, National Institute of Informatics , Japan
Christelle Scharff, Pace University, United States
Christian Schlegel, Technische Hochschule Ulm, Germany
Peter Schneider-Kamp, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
Eva-Maria Schön, University of Applied Sciences Emden/Leer, Germany
Abdelhak-Djamel Seriai, Montpellier University, France
Istvan Siket, Hungarian Academy of Science, Research Group on Artificial Intelligence, Hungary
Leandro Dias da Silva, Universidade Federal de Alagoas, Brazil
Jacopo Soldani, Università di Pisa, Italy
Fritz Solms, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa
Zlatko Stapic, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Hiroki Suguri, Miyagi University, Japan
Rosa Ariani Sukamto, Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia, Indonesia
Thanwadee Sunetnanta, Mahidol University, Thailand
Adel Taweel, Birzeit University, Palestine (State of)
Maria Tortorella, University of Sannio, Italy
Enrico Tronci, Universita' Di Roma "la Sapienza", Italy
Juan Manuel Vara Mesa, Kybele Research Group - University Rey Juan Carlos, Spain
Tullio Vardanega, University of Padua, Italy
Enrico Vicario, University of Florence, Italy
László Vidács, University of Szeged, Hungary
Tony Wasserman, Software Methods and Tools, United States
Dietmar Winkler, Vienna University of Technology, Austria

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