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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

Abstracts
Abstract Submission: May 22, 2026
Authors Notification: June 8, 2026
Camera Ready and Registration: June 17, 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

Available soon.

CONFERENCE CHAIR

Leszek Maciaszek, Macquarie Univ., Australia and Wroclaw Univ. of Economics and Business, Poland

PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS

Massimo Mecella, Dipartimento di Ingegneria Informatica Automatica e Gestionale, Sapienza - University of Rome, Italy
Oksana Nikiforova, Riga Technical University, Latvia

PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Davide Ancona, Università di Genova, Italy
Jorge Bernardino, Polytechnic University of Coimbra, Portugal
Lorenzo Bettini, DISIA, Univ. Firenze, Italy
Christoph Bockisch, Philipp University of Marburg, Germany
Alessio Bucaioni, Maelardalen University, Sweden
Alena Buchalcevova, University of Economics, Czech Republic
Alejandro Calderón, University of Cádiz, Spain
Rafael Capilla, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain
Josep Maria Carmona Leyva, Independent Researcher, Spain
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
João Cunha, Polytechnic of Coimbra, Coimbra Institute of Engineering, Portugal
Hector Florez, Universidad Distrital Francisco Jose de Caldas, Colombia
Claudio Geyer, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Paola Giannini, University of Piemonte Orientale, Italy
Andreas Holzinger, Medical University Graz, Austria
Jang-Eui Hong, Chungbuk National University, Korea, Republic of
Jun Kong, North Dakota State University, United States
Giuseppe Lami, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy
Claude Laporte, École de Technologie Supérieure, Canada
David Lorenz, Open University, Israel
Daniel Lucrédio, UFSCar - Federal University of São Carlos, Brazil
Federico Mari, University of Rome Foro Italico, Italy
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
Alex Norta, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia
Marcin Paprzycki, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Francesco Quaglia, Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy
Stefano Quer, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Andres Rodriguez, LIFIA, Facultad de Informática, UNLP, Argentina
Nickolas S. Sapidis, University of Western Macedonia, Greece
Peter Schneider-Kamp, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
Abdelhak-Djamel Seriai, Montpellier University, France
Adel Taweel, Birzeit University, Palestine (State of)
Enrico Tronci, Universita' Di Roma "la Sapienza", Italy
Tullio Vardanega, University of Padua, Italy
Tony Wasserman, Software Methods and Tools, United States

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