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14th International Conference on Software Engineering Research and Innovation

Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas, Zacatecas, Mexico.
October 27 to October 30, 2026.
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Submission Deadline: May 15, 2026

CONISOFT 2026 conference will be hybrid.


The 14th International Conference on Software Engineering Research and Innovation (CONISOFT 2026) is set to take place at Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas, Zacatecas, Mexico, from October 27 to October 30, 2026. This event aims to unite practitioners and researchers from academia, industry, and government to advance the state of the art in software engineering. Furthermore, it strives to foster synergy between academia and industry by defining a collaborative strategy to support and promote the growth of the software industry in Mexico and across the globe. Submissions that effectively integrate theoretical and practical aspects are particularly encouraged.


https://conisoft.org/2026/
Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE
(To be confirmed)

Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society
(To be confirmed)


Topics:
The topics for this edition are listed below, but are not limited to these:


1. Foundations of Software Systems: From Requirements to Architecture
- How requirements fail in real projects
- Architecture decisions that scale (or break systems)
- Design trade-offs in modern software

2. Evidence-Based Software Engineering
- Experiments with developers and users
- What data really tells us about software quality
- Measuring productivity, usability, and defects

3. Formal Methods and Software Correctness in Practice
- When formal methods are worth the cost
- Safety-critical systems (health, automotive, AI)
- Bridging theory and real-world validation

4. Future-Driven Software Engineering
- AI-assisted development
- Sustainable and green software
- Software for emerging technologies (IoT, XR, robotics)

5. Human-Centered and Socially Responsible Software
- User-centered design in real systems
- Ethics, inclusion, and social impact
- Software for diverse and underrepresented users

6. Learning Software Engineering: Tools, Skills, and Workforce Readiness
- How students actually learn SE
- Tools that improve learning and assessment
- Industry-ready skills and competencies

7. Real-World Software Engineering: Industry and Government Cases
- What went wrong (and how it was fixed)
- Lessons learned from large-scale systems
- Collaboration between academia and industry

8. Secure, Fair, and Dependable Software Systems
- Security failures and real attacks
- Privacy, ethics, and fairness
- Secure-by-design approaches

9. Keeping Software Alive: Testing, Debugging, and Evolution
- Automated testing in practice
- Debugging complex systems
- Legacy systems and technical debt

10. Engineering Reliable AI Systems
- Testing AI-based systems
- Data, models, and pipelines
- Repair, validation, and trust in AI
Author Guidelines
Participation modalities (types of works):
Track 1: Scientific papers in English
Original research, basic and experimental - finished or in progress.

Track 2: Scientific papers in Spanish
Original research, basic and experimental - finished or in progress.

Paper length
Finished scientific papers (English or Spanish) will be submitted as full papers, ranging from 8 pages to 10 pages.
Works in progress will be submitted as short papers (English or Spanish), ranging from 6 pages to 8 pages.

Papers must be original works, not have been published before, nor have they been submitted simultaneously to other events.

Submitted papers will be evaluated by an international reviewers committee composed of renowned researchers and professionals, who can be consulted on the conference website.

Languages:
The CONISOFT will accept articles in English and Spanish.

Paper publication:
(a) Accepted papers for CONISOFT in English (Track 1) will be submitted for inclusion in IEEE Xplore and the IEEE Computer Society (CSDL) digital libraries (To be confirmed). The papers accepted for presentation and discussion at the CONISOFT conference are published in the proceedings by IEEE and will be submitted for indexing by IET INSPEC, EI (Compendex), Thomson ISI, Scopus, and other indexing services. (To be confirmed)

Based on the quality of the submissions, we are considering publishing extended versions of the best quality papers (in English) in a post-conference special issue in the Journal (with a second-round reviewing): Programming and Computer Software, © Springer. IF 0.936, Q4 (Scopus: Q3).

* The post-conference publication could require an additional payment to the editorial. Authors will be required to provide expanded versions of their submissions, which will undergo an additional review process for inclusion in the special issue.

(b) Accepted papers in Spanish will be published in a set of journals with Ibero-American indexes (some articles may be required to be translated into English as required by some journals). (to be defined).

Paper structure:
The characteristics of the types of work and their structure can be found on the conference website. To prepare your paper, please use the template from:
https://conisoft.org/2026/

Submission Guidelines
Please submit an anonymized version of your paper without any authors’ details.
Kindly note that papers must remain consistent with the language originally submitted (English or Spanish).

Where to submit:
For paper submission, please visit the link for the Conisoft Track 1 and Track 2:
https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/CONISOFT2026

How to submit:
Track 1: Scientific papers in English
Track 2: Scientific papers in Spanish

CONISOFT 2026 President:
Reyes Juárez Ramírez, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California (México)

CONISOFT 2026 General Chair:
Samantha Jimérez Calleros, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California (México)

Co-Chair:
Perla Velasco Elizondo, Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas (México)

CONISOFT 2026 Local Organizing Committee Chair:
Alejandro Mauricio González, Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas (México)
Committees
CONISOFT 2026 is promoted by the Mexican Thematic Network of Software Engineering (Red Temática Mexicana de Ingeniería de Software) integrated by the following universities:
Universidad Autónoma de Baja California
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí
Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán
Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas
Universidad Tecnológica de la Mixteca
Universidad Popular Autónoma del Estado de Puebla (UPAEP)
Universidad Veracruzana
Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa
Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana
Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez
Instituto Tecnológico de Hermosillo
Centro Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo Tecnológico (CENIDET)
Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM), Monterrey
CINVESTAV, Tamaulipas
Universidad Politécnica de Tapachula
Instituto Tecnológico de Sonora
Instituto Tecnológico de Tijuana
Instituto Tecnológico de León
Instituto de Información Estadística y Geográfica de Jalisco

CONISOFT 2026 Steering Committee:
Advisory Board:
Claudio Miceli de Farias, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil);
Mario Piattini, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha (Spain);
Alain Abran, Univertisé Du Québec (Canada);
Donaten Koulla Moulla, University of South Africa (South Africa);
Andrei Tchernykh, CICESE Research Center (Mexico)
Alfredo Goldman, São Paulo University (Brazil);
Sergio Nesmachnow, Universidad de la República (Uruguay);
Maria Elena Chavez Echeagaray, University of Arizona (USA)

Expert Committee:
Micheal Tuape, Lappeenranta Lahti University of Technology (Finland);
Andrea Delgado, Universidad de la República (Uruguay);
Jorge Mario Cortés Mendoza, National College of Ireland (Ireland);
Grégoire Danoy, University of Luxembourg (Luxembourg);
Gleb Radchenko, Silicon Austria Labs (Austria);
Xinheng Wang, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (China);
Muddesar Iqbal, Prince Sultan University (Saudi Arabia);
Fabrizzio Soares, Universidade Federal de Goiás (Brazil)
Abhishek Pandey, Chandigarh University (Brazil)
Everardo Inzunza-Gonzalez, Universiad Autónoma de Baja California (México)


CONISOFT 2026 Technical Program Committee:

Publicity Committee:
Karina Cancino, Universidad Politécnica de Tapachula (Mexico);
Fabrizzio Soares, Universidade Federal de Goiás (Brazil);
Jheimer Sepúlveda López, Universidad Nacional de Colombia (Colombia);
Micheal Tuape, Lappeenranta Lahti University of Technology (Finland);
Donaten Koulla Moulla, University of South Africa (South Africa);


Paper submission administration:
Carlos Alberto Fernández y Fernández, Universidad Tecnológica de la Mixteca (México);

Reviewing process administration:
Jorge Mario Cortés Mendoza (co-chair), National College of Ireland (Ireland);
Sandra Casas, Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia Austral (Argentina);
Francisco Valdés Souto, UNAM (Mexico);
Patricia Martínez Moreno, Universidad Veracruzana (Mexico);

Technical Program Chair:
César Arturo Guerra García, Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí (México)

Conference Program Committee:
Alejandro Mauricio Gonzñalez, Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí (México);
Jorge Rafael Aguilar Cisneros, UPAEP (México)

Presentations administration:
Jheimer Sepúlveda López, Universidad Nacional de Colombia (Colombia)
Héctor Gerardo Pérez González, Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí (México)
María de los Angeles Quezada Cisnero, Instituto Tecnológico de Tijuana (México)

Publication and Proceedings:
Abhishek Kumar, Chandigarh University (India)
Manuel Alejandro Pastrana Pardo, Institución Universitaria Antonio José Camacho (Colombia)
Jorge Octavio Ocharán Hernández, Universidad Veracruzana (México)

Journal Special Issues:
Andrei Tchernykh, CICESE Research Center (México)
Alfredo Goldman, São Paulo University (Brazil)
Sergio Nesmachnow, Universidad de la República (Uruguay)

Sponsorship:
Maria Elena Chavez Echeagaray, Arizona State University (USA)
Micheal Tuape, Lappeenranta Lahti University of Technology (Finland)

Reviewers Committee:
In this edition, the Reviewers Committee is integrated by highly qualified researchers in Software Engineering and closely related disciplines.
Please, see this link for more information about the Reviewers Committee:
https://conisoft.org/2026/#committees
Important dates
May 15, 2026: Paper Submission
July 05, 2026: Notification of acceptance
August 17, 2026: Sending final version
August 21, 2026: Early registration
October 27-31, 2026: CONISOFT 2025
Venue
CONISOFT 2026 is hosted by Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas. Carretera Zacatecas-Guadalajara km 6, La Escondida, Campus Siglo XXI, C.P. 98160. Zacatecas, Zac.
Contact information
Reyes Juárez Ramírez (President)
reyesjua@uabc.edu.mx
Universidad Autónoma de Baja California,
Facultad de Ciencias Químicas e Ingeniería,
Calzada Universidad 14418, Parque Industrial
Internacional Tijuana, Tijuana, B.C.
C.P. 22390, México. Tel.: +52 664 9797500, ext. 54335

Samantha Jiménez Calleros (General Chair)
jimenez.samantha@uabc.edu.mx
Universidad Autónoma de Baja California,
Facultad de Ciencias de la Ingeniería y Tecnología-Unidad Valle de las Palmas,
Blvd Universitario 1000, Unidad Valle de Las Palmas, 22260 Tijuana, B.C.
Tel: 6649797591 ext 50143

Dra. Perla Inés Velasco Elizondo (Co-Chair)
pvelasco@uaz.edu.mx
Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas,
Carretera Zacatecas-Guadalajara km 6, La Escondida, Campus Siglo XXI, C.P. 98160. Zacatecas, Zac.
Tel: 4929256690 ext 1910 / 1911

Dr. Alejandro Mauricio Gonzalez (Local Chair)
amgdark@uaz.edu.mx
Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas,
Carretera Zacatecas-Guadalajara km 6, La Escondida, Campus Siglo XXI, C.P. 98160. Zacatecas, Zac.
Tel: 4929256690 ext 1910 / 1911