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29th Ibero-American Conference on Software Engineering (CIbSE 2026)
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, 11-15 May 2026

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS

https://conf.researchr.org/home/cibse-2026

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IMPORTANT DATES
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Main Conference
Abstract submission: 16 January 2026
Paper submission: 30 January 2026
Notification: 13 March 2026
Final version (camera ready): 23 March 2026

Doctoral Symposium and Journal First
Paper submission: 30 January 2026
Notification: 13 March 2026
Final version (camera ready): 23 March 2026
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CIbSE is the leading Software Engineering research forum in Ibero-America. The main objective of this conference is to promote high-quality scientific research in Iberoamerican countries and, thus, to support researchers in this community in the publication and discussion of their work. In addition, the conference fosters collaboration and scientific production between academics, students and practitioners.

CIbSE 2026 will be held in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, and will include invited talks from influential researchers in the Software Engineering community.

CIbSE 2026 will be held alongside three satellite events: the Doctoral Symposium, the 9th edition of the Ibero-American Advanced Software Engineering School (EIbAIS) and Industry Talks. The Doctoral Symposium is organized to discuss the ongoing work of doctoral theses related to the general area of Software Engineering. EIbAIS combines lectures and tutorials on current trends in Software Engineering by renowned speakers. The Industry Talks aim to bring together academics and practitioners from the local community to discuss Software Engineering issues in practice.

CIbSE 2026 also invites submissions of articles of R&D projects and contracts with companies, where researchers can describe their current research lines funded by national and international grants, as well as contracts with companies in which valuable technology transfer actions are carried out in the field of Software Engineering.

TOPICS OF INTEREST
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Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Application of Artificial Intelligence to Software Engineering
- Auto-adaptive systems
- Community-based software engineering (e.g., open source, crowdsourcing)
- Continuous Software Engineering (Agile Development, DevOps, Continuous Delivery, Continuous Integration, etc.)
- Confidentiality, integrity, privacy, and fairness
- Detection of vulnerabilities to enhance software security
- Digital Twins
- Ethics in Software Engineering
- Experimental Software Engineering
- Human and social aspects of Software Engineering
- Industrial experience reports in Software Engineering
- LLMs and other foundation models in Software Engineering
- Open Science for Software Engineering
- Quantum Software Engineering
- Requirements Engineering
- Research methods in Software Engineering
- Search-based Software Engineering
- Software architecture and variability
- Software economics
- Software ecosystems and systems of systems
- Software Engineering and data science
- Software Engineering education and training
- Software Engineering for strategic domains (e.g., agriculture, aviation, smart cities, etc.)
- Software evolution and modernisation
- Software modeling and Model-Driven Engineering
- Software processes
- Software product lines and processes
- Software quality, quality models and technical debt management
- Software reliability
- Software repository mining and software analytics
- Software reuse
- Software sustainability and Green Software Engineering
- Software testing

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
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Authors are invited to submit high-quality research papers describing significant, original and previously unpublished results in Software Engineering, in any of the official languages of CIbSE: English, Spanish and Portuguese.
The following paper categories are welcome:
Technical papers (no more than 15 pages): papers describing innovative research in the topics of interest of the conference. Papers in this category should describe an original contribution to the topics and should carefully support claims of novelty with citations to the relevant literature.
Technical papers are evaluated on the basis of originality, relevance, significance of the contribution, soundness and quality of presentation. When an article builds on previous work by the author(s), the novelty of the new contribution with respect to the previous work should be clearly described. Technical papers should clearly discuss how the results were validated.
As in previous years, a set of the best papers presented at the conference will be selected for publication in a journal indexed in the Journal of Citation Reports (Science of Computer Programming Journal or similar). Additionally, the best paper will receive a certificate of recognition.
Emerging ideas papers (no more than 8 pages): papers describing new and unconventional approaches that depart from standard practice, on the topics of interest of the conference. They are intended to describe clear research ideas that are at an early stage of development.
Papers on emerging ideas will be evaluated primarily on their level of originality and potential impact on the field with respect to promoting innovative thinking. Therefore, gaps in the state-of-the-art, relevance, correctness and impact of the idea should be accurately described. While it is not necessary to fully validate the idea being presented, a presentation of preliminary results is expected to provide initial information on the feasibility and impact of the contribution.
Articles on applied R&D projects or contracts with companies (no more than 4 pages): these contributions must describe R&D projects that are in progress at the time of submission. For these articles, the following information should be included: summary, main objective, beneficiaries of the proposal, technologies used and results obtained (so far and expected).
Poster papers (no more than 2 pages): papers describing an idea or initial state of a study, related to the topics of interest of the conference, and without the need to have obtained tangible results at the time of submission. The main objective is to enable conference participants to discuss these ideas with the authors and to contribute new insights to the work in progress. Accepted papers will be presented in poster format in a session in which there will be interaction between authors and conference attendees. In addition, the best poster will receive a certificate of recognition.

Submission
All papers must be submitted through EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cibse2026), using PDF format only. Submissions should follow the Brazilian Computer Society style for conference papers (https://www.sbc.org.br/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/modelosparapublicaodeartigos.zip ).
Accepted technical and emerging ideas papers will be included in the conference proceedings, which will be made available through the Open Digital Library of the Brazilian Computer Society - SOL (https://sol.sbc.org.br/index.php/anais) and Curran Associates (http://www.proceedings.com/), and subsequently indexed in DBLP and Scopus.
At least one author of each accepted article must register before the deadline for the final version. One registration corresponds to one paper only. Any author of each accepted paper must present it personally at the conference, or the paper will be excluded from the proceedings. If an author has more than one accepted paper and will present all of them at the conference, it is possible to pay 50% of the registration fee for the second and subsequent co-authored papers. If they are presented by different authors at the conference, each author must pay 100% of the registration fee.
Papers that are not within the scope of the conference, do not follow the formatting guidelines, or have been submitted or published in any other forum (conference or journal) will be rejected without review. All other submissions will be reviewed by at least three members of the Program Committee.

Open Science Policy
CIbSE 2026 has an open science policy grounded in the principle that research results should be publicly accessible and empirical studies should be reproducible whenever possible. We actively promote the adoption of open data and open-source principles and practices, encouraging contributing authors to share (anonymized and curated) data to increase reproducibility and replicability.
All submissions will undergo the same review process, regardless of whether research artifacts (e.g., tool prototypes, code, interview protocols, questionnaires) or datasets are disclosed. However, we recommend authors include a supporting statement in their submissions in a section named “Artifact Availability” after the “Conclusion” section. This statement should either provide links to the open data or replication package or explain why the data cannot be shared (e.g., due to sensitivity or non-disclosure agreements). The statement should clarify whether and where the data and related materials are accessible and under what conditions they can be used.
Authors are encouraged to provide a replication package for their research artifacts, accompanied by clear instructions on usage and navigation. We suggest including explanations in the paper about how the artifact (e.g., tool, data, or code) was utilized and detailing further usage guidance in a README file within the package.
In particular, we recommend to:
Share research artifacts and datasets as replication packages in reliable archival repositories (e.g., Zenodo, Figshare, GitHub) using appropriate licenses (e.g., based on Creative Commons CC-BY 4.0). Avoid sharing artifacts and datasets via cloud services such as Dropbox or Google Docs due to the volatility of the links associated with these services.
Share pre- and post-prints in non-commercial repositories (e.g., arXiv, institutional preprint repositories) using an appropriate license (e.g., arXiv default non-exclusive license, Creative Common). When sharing pre-prints, authors must avoid specifying that the manuscript was submitted to CIbSE 2026. We recommend against anonymizing them (i.e., by changing authors, title, abstract). The review committee members are instructed NOT to try to discover the authors' identity

JOURNAL FIRST
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Authors of papers on the conference's topics of interest accepted in JCR Q1 or Q2 journals are invited to present their research work at CIbSE. This provides an opportunity for authors to discuss their work with the community, as well as to enrich the technical program of CIbSE. Presentations of these papers will be included in the CIbSE 2026 program.
There are two main evaluation criteria for selecting papers: (1) the paper addresses one or more CIbSE topics of interest and (2) it describes original results that are not extensions of previous conference papers. In addition, (3) the article must have been accepted for publication in the journal from January 2024 to December 2025, and (4) it must not have been presented at any other conference as a journal-first contribution. Finally, (5) articles must be written in English, Portuguese, or Spanish.
At least one author of each selected paper must register before the submission date of the final version of the paper and present it at the conference.
Authors interested in submitting journal-first articles to CIbSE 2026 should submit their proposals of no more than one page, in PDF format via EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cibse2026). The following information should be provided: (i) title of the article; (ii) list of authors; (iii) affiliation; (iv) keywords; (v) journal name and information on its impact factor, ranking and quartile (Q1 or Q2); (vi) DOI; and (vii) abstract.

DOCTORAL SYMPOSIUM
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The Doctoral Symposium aims to disseminate ongoing research by junior researchers, where a panel of experts will discuss with researchers to suggest new perspectives and improvements to doctoral theses.
The research submitted can address any of the topics of interest of CIbSE 2026. We recommend, but do not require, that the research is at an intermediate stage (~2nd year) so that expert suggestions can be included in the PhD thesis.
The suggested structure of the articles is as follows:
Introduction to the field of research and identification of the main challenges in the field.
Explicit formulation of the research questions and objectives, justifying why they were chosen.
Summary of the current knowledge of the problem domain as well as the state of existing solutions.
Outline of the research methodology being applied.
Introduction of the proposed solution and the results obtained to date.
Statement of the aspects of the suggested solution that make it different or better compared to existing approaches.
Statement of outstanding issues and description of the next steps that are planned.
List of references.
Papers for the Doctoral Symposium will be written exclusively by doctoral students (therefore, the name of the thesis supervisor should not be included). All papers must be submitted in PDF, using the format established by the Open Digital Library of the Brazilian Computer Society - SOL (https://sol.sbc.org.br/index.php/anais), via EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cibse2026). Papers should be written in English, Portuguese or Spanish, and should not exceed 8 pages.
Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings. Authors of accepted papers must register before the deadline for the final version. Finally, the best paper will receive a certificate of recognition.

INDUSTRY TALKS
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The aim of the Industrial Talks is to promote the approach between professionals, researchers and teachers of software engineering, allowing to share the problems faced by our engineering in the real world and discussing the possibilities for improving collaboration between the parties, so that we can develop and implement better solutions. During the Industrial Talks, representatives from both SMEs and large companies will participate, as well as representatives from the world of research and R&D&I management organizations.

EIbAIS
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The Ibero-American Advanced School of Software Engineering (EIbAIS) represents the CIbSE's initiative to spread the knowledge of Software Engineering in Ibero-America.
EIbAIS aims to promote a forum for discussion on Software Engineering and its related technologies and theoretical foundations, through the participation of professionals, undergraduate and graduate students, and researchers. The tutorials are given by volunteers committed to contribute to the CIbSE community and to spread the knowledge of Software Engineering in Ibero-America.
EIbAIS is organised in two categories of sessions: (i) on the state of the practice and (ii) on the state of the art.
State of the practice sessions offer discussions on topics of general interest and often represent local demand. These sessions support the exchange of knowledge and practical issues with participants, presenting evidence-based Software Engineering results to the audience. Examples of state of the art topics include User-Centered Design, DevOps, Internet of Things, Microservices and Software Engineering for Data Science, Quantum Software Development, among others.
State of the art sessions offer discussion on emerging topics of interest and generally represent the perspectives of the Software Engineering research and innovation community. These sessions are intended to provide information on current and future Software Engineering technologies that could represent innovative concepts in the field. The state-of-the-art topics include the same topics of the conference.
All participants attending the sessions will receive a certificate of participation, indicating the sessions, lecturers and contents.

GENERAL ORGANISING COMMITTEE
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General Chairs of the Conference
Oscar Pastor (Universitat Politècnica de València, España)
Jose Reyes (Universitat Politècnica de València, España)

Program Committee Chairs
Pedro Valderas (Universitat Politècnica de València, España)
Regina Braga (Universidad Federal de Juiz de Fora, Brasil)

Journal First Chairs
Carla Silva (Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brasil)
Claudia Ayala (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, España)

Doctoral Symposium Chairs
Elisa Nakagawa (Universidad de São Paulo, Brasil)
Victoria Torres (Universitat Politècnica de València, España)

EIbAIS Chairs
Giovanni Giachetti (Universidad Andres Bello, Chile)
Marisa Panizzi (Universidad Tecnológica Nacional, Argentina)

Industry Talks Chairs
Ignacio García (Universidad de Castilla la Mancha, España)
José Franklin Perez (Universidad Nacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña, Republica Dominicana)

Proceedings and Open Science Chairs
Martin Solari Universidad ORT Uruguay, Uruguay)
Rebeca Motta (Universidad Federal Fluminense, Brasil)

Publicity and Social Networks Chairs
Daniel Calegari (Universidad de la República, Uruguay)
Enrique Moguel (Universidad de Extremadura, España)
Breno França (Unicamp, Brasil)

Sustainability Chairs
Estefanía Velásquez (Universidad Nacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña, Republica Dominicana)
Ronnie de Souza Santos (University of Calgary, Canada)

Web Chairs
Ángel Emilio Aquino (Universidad Nacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña, Republica Dominicana)