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*** Last Call for Replication and Negative Results ***
37th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering
(ISSRE 2026)
October 20-23, 2026, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina
Limassol, Cyprus
The Replications and Negative Results (RENE) Track has been introduced in the software
engineering community for a while and received overwhelmingly positive feedback. This
year, we establish this track at ISSRE and invite researchers to (1) replicate results from
previous papers and (2) publish studies with important and relevant negative or null
results (results that fail to show an effect, yet demonstrate the research paths that did not
pay off).
We also encourage the publication of the negative results or replicable aspects of
previously published work. For example, authors of a published paper reporting a working
solution for a given problem can document in a “negative results paper” other (failed)
attempts they made before defining the working solution they published.
• Replication studies. The papers in this category must go beyond simply re-
implementing an algorithm and/or re-running the artifacts provided by the original paper.
Such submissions should at least apply the approach to new data sets (open-source or
proprietary). A replication study should clearly report on results that the authors were
able to replicate, as well as on the aspects of the work that were not replicable.
• Negative results papers. We seek papers that report on negative results. We seek
negative results for all types of program comprehension research in any empirical area
(qualitative, quantitative, case study, experiment, etc.). For example, did your controlled
experiment not show an improvement over the baseline? Even if negative, results obtained
are still valuable when they are either not obvious or disprove widely accepted wisdom.
Evaluation Criteria
Both Replication Studies and Negative Results submissions will be evaluated according to
the following standards:
• Depth and breadth of the empirical studies
• Clarity of writing
• Appropriateness of conclusions
• Amount of useful, actionable insights
• Availability of artifacts
• Underlying methodological rigor. A negative result due primarily to misaligned
expectations or due to lack of statistical power (small samples) is not a good submission.
The negative result should be a result of a lack of effect, not a lack of methodological
rigor.
Most importantly, we expect replication studies to clearly point out the artifacts upon
which the study is built, and to provide the links to all the artifacts in the submission (the
only exception will be given to those papers that replicate the results on proprietary
datasets that can not be publicly released).
Submission Instructions
Submissions must be original, in the sense that the findings and writing have not been
previously published or under consideration elsewhere. However, as either replication
studies or negative results, some overlap with previous work is expected. Please make
clear in the paper the overlap with and difference from previous work.
All submissions must be in PDF format and conform, at time of submission, to the IEEE
Computer Society Format Guidelines:
Authors are strongly encouraged to print the PDF and review it for integrity (fonts,
symbols, equations, etc.) before submission, as defective printing can undermine a
paper’s chance of success. By submitting to the ISSRE RENE Track, authors acknowledge
that they are aware of and agree to be bound by the IEEE Plagiarism FAQ. In particular,
papers submitted to the RENE track must not have been published elsewhere and must not
be under review or submitted for review elsewhere whilst under consideration for ISSRE
2026. Contravention of this concurrent submission policy will be deemed a serious breach
of scientific ethics, and appropriate action will be taken in all such cases. To check for
double submission and plagiarism issues, the chairs reserve the right to (1) share the list
of submissions with the PC Chairs of other conferences with overlapping review periods
and (2) use external plagiarism detection software, under contract to the IEEE, to detect
violations of these policies.
Submissions to the RENE Track can be made via the ISSRE RENE track submission site:
Submission Length: The ISSRE RENE Track accepts submissions of two lengths:
(1) New replication studies and new descriptions of negative results should have a length
of up to 10 pages, plus 2 pages which may only contain references.
(2) Negative results documented during the preparation of previously published work by
the authors should be described in up to 5 pages, plus 1 page, which may only contain
references (e.g., as previously mentioned, authors of a published paper can document
negative results they obtained while working on it, such as methodologically sound
solutions that did not work).
Important note 1: Both types of papers (replication and negative results) will be included
as part of the main conference proceedings.
Important note 2: The RENE track does not follow a double-anonymous review process.
Publication and Presentation
Upon notification of acceptance, all authors of accepted papers will receive further
instructions for preparing the camera-ready versions of their submissions. If a submission
is accepted, at least one author of the paper is required to have a full registration for ISSRE
2026, attend the conference, and present the paper in person. All accepted papers will be
published in the conference electronic proceedings. The presentation is expected to be
delivered in person, unless this is impossible due to travel limitations (e.g., related to
health or visa). Details about the presentations will follow the notifications.
The official publication date is the date the proceedings are made available in the IEEE
Digital Libraries. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings
related to published work.
Purchases of additional pages in the proceedings are not allowed.
Important Dates (AoE)
• Submission deadline: July 5, 2026
• Notification of acceptance: August 12, 2026
• Camera-ready copy submission: August 19, 2026
• Author registration deadline: August 19, 2026
Organisation
General Chairs
• Leonardo Mariani, University of Milano – Bicocca, Italy
• George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Program Coordinator
• Roberto Natella, GSSI, Italy
Research Program Committee Chairs
• Domenico Cotroneo, UNC Charlotte, USA
• Jie M. Zhang, King's College London, UK
Industry Program Chairs
• Jinyang Liu, Bytedance, USA
• Sigrid Eldh, Ericsson AB, Sweden
Workshop Chairs
• Georgia Kapitsaki, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
• August Shi, The University of Texas at Austin, USA
Doctoral Symposium Chairs
• Stefan Winter, LMU Munich, Germany
• Lili Wei, McGill University, Canada
Fast Abstract Chairs
• Luigi Lavazza, University of Insubria, Italy
• Yintong Huo, SMU, Singapore
JIC2 Chair
• Helene Waeselynck, LAAS-CNRS, France
Publicity Chairs
• Allison K. Sulivan, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA
• Jose D'Abruzzo Pereira, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Publication Chairs
• Sherlock Licorish, Otago Business School, New Zealand
• Maria Teresa Rossi, GSSI, Italy
Artifact Evaluation Chairs
• Naghmeh Ivaki, University of Coimbra, Portugal
• Fumio Machida, University of Tsukuba, Japan
Diversity and Inclusion Chair
• Eleni Constantinou, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Financial Chair
• Costas Pattichis, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Web Chairs
• Michalis Ioannides, Easy Conferences LTD
• Elena Masserini, University of Milano – Bicocca, Italy
Registration Chair
• Easy Conferences LTD
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37th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2026): Last Call for Replications and Negative Results
June 23rd, 2026
Daniela Lopez de Luise DeepLearn 2026: regular registration July 17
June 23rd, 2026
Daniela Lopez de Luise CFP: 8th icSoftComp2026 Scopus-indexed Springer CCIS Singapore
June 23rd, 2026
Daniela Lopez de Luise CALL FOR PAPERS

icSoftComp2026
8th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SOFT COMPUTING AND ITS ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS
Singapore | December 08–10, 2026
Paper submission link: https://meteor.springer.com/icSoftComp2026
Dear Professor,
Greetings!
I'm pleased to inform you that the 8th International Conference on Soft Computing and its Engineering Applications (icSoftComp2026) will be organized on December 8–10, 2026, in Singapore.
Could you please consider contributing to and/or forwarding this opportunity to the appropriate groups to submit and publish an original research paper to the 8th icSoftComp2026.
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About the Conference:
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icSoftComp2026 aims to provide an excellent international forum for researchers, academicians, students, and professionals in areas of computer science and engineering to present their research, knowledge, new ideas, and innovations. The conference will exhibit an exciting technical program and feature high-quality tutorials and workshops, industry panels, exhibitions, and keynotes from prominent research and industry leaders.
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Important Notes:
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– icSoftComp2026 follows a double-blind peer review system.
– Conference proceedings by Springer CCIS Series (Scopus-indexed)
– The conference will be held in a hybrid mode: in-person and online
– Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended article versions for a post-conference special issue of peer-reviewed, Scopus-indexed journals.
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Speakers:
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- Lipo Wang, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
- Jochen Wirtz, National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore
- Kay Römer, TU Graz, Graz University of Technology, Austria
- Joao M.F. Rodrigues, Universidade do Algarve, Faro, Portugal
- Ankit Agrawal, Northwestern University, USA
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Paper Submission:
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icSoftComp2026 solicits papers on all aspects of soft computing and its engineering applications for a smart and better world. The topics of the conference include, but are not limited to the following:
Track 1: Theory and Methods
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Track 2: Systems and Applications
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Track 3: Hybrid Techniques
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Track 4: Soft Computing for Smart Sustainable World
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Important Dates:
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| Submission due: | 30/06/2026 |
| Acceptance Notification: | 31/07/2026 |
| Camera-ready Submission due: | According to the notification |
| Last date of registration: | According to the notification |
| Conference dates: | 08-10/12/2026 |
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Paper Publication:
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The accepted and presented papers will be published as proceedings with Springer in their prestigious Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) series.
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Indexing:
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Indexed by Scopus, Ei Compendex, Google Scholar, and Springerlink
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Journal Publication:
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Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended article versions for a post-conference special issue of peer-reviewed journals.
Could you please let me know if you need any other information?
Warm regards,
MUSTCV 2026: 5th Workshop on Computer Vision for Multimedia Spatial Intelligence through Time (at ECCV 2026)
June 23rd, 2026
Daniela Lopez de Luise ECCV2026 workshop on uncertainty quantification
June 23rd, 2026
Daniela Lopez de Luise https://uncertainty-cv.github.io/2026/
Submission Deadline: June 30th, 2026, 23:59 CEST
Two types of paper are welcome:
– Extended Abstracts (novel contributions or papers that have been already accepted for publication previously)
Apologies for multiple posting.
Please distribute this call to interested parties.
In the last decade, substantial progress has been made w.r.t. the performance of computer vision systems, a significant part of it thanks to deep learning. These advancements prompted sharp community growth and a rise in industrial investment. However, most current models lack the ability to reason about the confidence of their predictions; integrating uncertainty quantification into vision systems will help recognize failure scenarios and enable robust applications.
The ECCV 2026 workshop on Uncertainty Quantification for Computer Vision will consider recent advances in methodology and applications of uncertainty quantification in computer vision. Prospective authors are invited to submit papers on relevant algorithms and applications including, but not limited to:
– Applications of uncertainty quantification in computer vision
– Reliability, calibration, and uncertainty in vision foundation models
– Uncertainty estimation for large multimodal models, including vision-language and video-language models
– Hallucination detection and mitigation in multimodal and generative AI systems
– Uncertainty in diffusion, flow-matching, image/video generation, and text-to-image alignment
– Open-vocabulary recognition, detection, and segmentation under uncertainty
– Failure prediction, out-of-distribution detection, and distribution shift
– Robustness, safety, and uncertainty-aware decision making in computer vision
– Selective prediction, abstention, and human-in-the-loop systems
– Conformal prediction, risk control, and statistically grounded uncertainty guarantees
– Uncertainty in 3D vision, neural rendering, Gaussian splatting, and world models
– Uncertainty-aware synthetic data generation, data curation, and evaluation
– Deep probabilistic models and Bayesian methods for vision
– Incorporating explicit prior knowledge in deep learning and foundation models
– Output ambiguity, label noise, annotator disagreement, and diversity
– Safety-critical applications, including autonomous driving, robotics, and medical diagnosis
All papers will be peer-reviewed, and accepted Regular papers are presented at the workshop and included in the ECCV Workshop Proceedings.
Submission Instructions
At the time of submission authors must indicate the desired paper track:
– Regular papers will be peer-reviewed following the same policy of the main conference and will be published in the proceedings (call for papers with guidelines and template here, max 8 pages, additional pages for references only are allowed). These are meant to present novel contributions not published previously (submitted papers should not have been published, accepted or under review elsewhere).
– Extended abstracts are meant for preliminary works and short versions of papers that have already been accepted, or are under review, preferably in the last year in some major conferences or journals. These papers will undergo a separate reviewing process to assess the suitability for the workshop. These will *not appear* in the workshop proceedings. Template and guidelines (max 4 content pages, additional pages for references allowed) here.
Submission site: https://openreview.net/group?id=thecvf.com/ECCV/2026/Workshop/UnCV
Important Dates
– Submission deadline: June 30th, 2026, 23:59 CEST
– Notification of acceptance: August 10th, 2026
– Camera-ready deadline: August 15th, 2026
Organizing Committee
– Andrea Pilzer, NVIDIA, Italy
– Gianni Franchi, ENSTA Paris, France
– Andrei Bursuc, valeo.ai, France
– Arno Solin, Aalto University, Finland
– Martin Trapp, KTH Royal Institute of Techology, Sweden
– Ziyun Li, KTH Royal Institute of Techology, Sweden
– Angela Yao, National University of Singapore, Singapore
– Tuan-Hung Vu, valeo.ai and Inria, France
– Fatma Güney, Koç University, Turkey
The UNCV organizers



