Call for Papers – Special Issue on Explainable and Efficient AI
April 23rd, 2026 
Daniela Lopez de Luise https://link.springer.com/collections/abiddicdga
MOTIVATION AND SCOPE
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming real-world systems, driven by advances such as Large Language Models (LLMs), Vision Transformers (ViTs), Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), and Generative AI (GenAI). As these models become increasingly powerful, a key challenge is ensuring that they are not only accurate, but also interpretable, efficient, and suitable for responsible deployment.
This Special Issue aims to collect contributions addressing interpretability and efficiency in modern AI systems, spanning methodological advances, theoretical insights, and real-world applications.
Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
- Explainable approaches for deep learning architectures (LLMs, ViTs, CNNs, GNNs)
- Interpretability techniques for generative and multimodal AI
- Model compression and acceleration (e.g., pruning, distillation)
- Trade-offs between interpretability, efficiency, and accuracy
- Case studies in domains such as healthcare, finance, and education
Interdisciplinary contributions are strongly encouraged, with the goal of making AI systems more transparent, efficient, and scalable in practice.
MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
Submissions should be made through the journal’s submission system:
https://link.springer.com/collections/abiddicdga
All manuscripts will undergo peer review according to the journal’s standard policies. Papers should present original, unpublished work and must comply with the journal’s author guidelines.
MANUSCRIPT FORMATTING GUIDELINES
Authors are invited to follow the journal’s Guide for Authors:
https://link.springer.com/journal/44163/submission-guidelines
Feel free to share this call with interested colleagues.
Guest Editors
- Alessia Amelio, University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy
- Stefano Cirillo, University of Salerno, Italy
- Michele Marchetti, Polytechnic University of Marche, Italy
- Luca Virgili, Polytechnic University of Marche, Italy
Convocatoria abierta: Escuela Latinoamericana de Informática – CLEI 2026 – Deadline 17/5
April 21st, 2026 Daniela Lopez de Luise Latinoamericana de Informática
(https://conferencia2026.clei.org/es-cl/eli/), que se llevarán a cabo en
el marco de la 52ª Conferencia Latinoamericana de Informática (CLEI
2026) en la Ciudad de México.
Información General
La V Escuela Latinoamericana de Informática (ELI) es una evolución de
los tutoriales que se dictan en todos los CLEI. Desde 2022 se inicia la
formalización de los mismos y para la quinta edición a desarrollarse en
paralelo con CLEI 2026 se pretende brindar una opción de cursos de
interés a estudiantes de grado, posgrado y profesionales. La
presentación de los cursos se hará de manera similar a la de los
trabajos y serán evaluados por un comité académico que seleccionará un
conjunto de cursos. Los temas previstos para ELI involucran todas las
áreas de la ciencia y la ingeniería de computación.
Llamada para propuestas de cursos
ELI 2026 convoca a la presentación de cursos en cualquier área de la
ciencia e ingeniería de computación y sus tecnologías y fundamentos
teóricos relacionados, que presenten temas de actualidad con base en
resultados de investigación, el estado del arte de un tema determinado,
o la introducción a un tema de interés industrial o académico,
considerando los tópicos incluidos en los tracks de CLEI: Sistemas de
Software, Sistemas Inteligentes, Sistemas en la práctica, Tecnologías en
Informática y Educación en Informática.
Se aceptarán dos tipos de propuestas de cursos a realizarse durante la
semana de la conferencia CLEI:
– Cursos con entre 10 y 15 horas de dictado presencial por parte del
docente y un mínimo de 25 horas totales de curso, agregando a las horas
presenciales horas extras necesarias de trabajo final a realizar por el
estudiante luego de finalizada la escuela.
– Cursos de entre 10 y 15 horas de dictado presencial por parte del
docente sin horas extras luego de la escuela.
En ambas modalidades se otorgarán certificados ELI-CLEI, en el primer
caso de aprobación y en el segundo caso de asistencia.
Se ofrecerá apoyo parcial para asistir a ELI para el dictado presencial
del curso durante CLEI 2026. Esto será coordinado con los proponentes
una vez notificados los cursos seleccionados. Se recomienda a quienes
postulen cursos para la ELI que envíen también trabajos a la conferencia
CLEI 2026, a fin de asegurar otra vía de financiamiento que permita
participar en la ELI, dado que no se garantiza que el apoyo cubra los
costos de traslado y alojamiento.
Envío de Propuestas de Cursos
La propuesta del curso debe enviarse en formato PDF a través de
easychair, indicando la opción del ELI en la plataforma. Se debe incluir
la siguiente información:
– Título del curso
– Área de la computación a la que pertenece (simposio asociado)
– Contenido (resumen general y temario detallado)
– Duración (cantidad de horas presenciales totales y propuesta de
días/horas por día)
– Cupo del curso (si lo tiene)
– CV del/los docentes
– Lengua de impartición (inglés, portugués o castellano)
Fechas Importantes
– Plazo de envio: 17 de mayo 2026
– Notificación a los autores: 29 de junio de 2026
Revisión de las Propuestas
Las propuestas de cursos serán evaluadas por un comité académico que
seleccionará un conjunto de cursos, sobre la base del cumplimiento de
los requisitos definidos en este llamado, incluyendo el CV del/los
proponentes. Se buscará que los temas de los cursos pertenezcan
idealmente a 3 áreas distintas de la disciplina Informática, variando
con respecto a la edición inmediata anterior de la Escuela y en
alineación con los intereses de la organización local.
Chairs
Dra. María Lucia Barrón Estrada (Tecnológico Nacional de México, campus
Culiacan – México)
Dr. Martin Pedemonte (Universidad de la República – Uruguay)
Call for Papers for AfriComm & AfricaTEK 2026
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37th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2026): Last Mile for Paper Submission (Research Track)
April 21st, 2026 Daniela Lopez de Luise |
*** Last Mile for Paper Submission (Research Track) ***
37th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering
(ISSRE 2026)
October 20-23, 2026, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina
Limassol, Cyprus
(*** Submission Deadline for Abstract/Paper: April 24, AoE ***)
The International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE) is the leading
conference on software reliability research and practice. ISSRE focuses on techniques and
tools for assessing, predicting, and improving the reliability, safety, security, and
resilience of software systems. As modern software increasingly integrates AI/ML
components, operates autonomously, and spans cloud-to-edge environments, ensuring
reliable system behavior is more critical than ever.
The call for papers for the Research Track attracted already an unprecedented number of
264 abstracts, the highest ever in the history of the conference. Due to numerous
requests for an extension to the submission deadline, the organisers are granting a single
extension for both abstract and paper submission; the new and firm deadline is now
April 24, AoE.
Topics of Interest
ISSRE 2026 invites high-quality contributions that advance the theory and practice of
software reliability across contemporary software-intensive systems, including systems
that incorporate AI/ML components. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Foundations of Reliability and Dependability
• Principles, models, metrics, empirical methods, and theories of software reliability,
resilience, robustness, and safety
• Systematic approaches to fault prevention, fault removal, fault tolerance, and fault
forecasting in modern software systems
• Testing and debugging, formal methods, model checking, static/dynamic analysis,
verification, and runtime assurance
Reliability in AI-Driven and Autonomic Systems
• Reliability engineering for AI-enabled, autonomous, self-adaptive, and cyber-physical
systems
• Assurance, testing, verification, and certification of AI/ML components, including
foundation and generative models
• Reliability of AI-generated code: validation, verification, explainability, defect analysis,
and trustworthy automation of development tasks
• Impact of AI on software lifecycle processes (design, testing, evolution, operations, and
quality management)
AI Techniques for Reliability Engineering
• Machine learning for defect prediction, anomaly detection, debugging assistance, fault
localization, and test automation
• Learning-based approaches to self-healing, resilience management, predictive
maintenance, and reliability optimization
• Reliability governance in AI-driven DevOps pipelines, including transparency,
interpretability, and auditability
Software Reliability in Emerging System Domains
• Reliability assurance for cloud, edge, IoT, 5G/6G, cyber-physical, high-performance,
and network softwarization environments
• Dependability of open-source ecosystems, data-driven pipelines, model hubs, and
AI-assisted contributions
• Benchmarking, stress testing, workload modeling, and measurement frameworks for
large-scale and AI-based systems
Trustworthiness, Security, and Responsible Software Engineering
• Intersections of reliability with security, privacy, fairness, transparency, and regulatory
compliance
• Societal, ethical, and human impacts of pervasive AI-enabled software systems
• Responsible governance of AI-based systems, including lifecycle assurance, auditability,
and risk analysis
Human-Centered, Empirical, and Reproducible Reliability Research
• Field studies, experience reports, user studies, and human factors in reliability
engineering
• Public datasets, benchmark suites, reproducibility packages, and replication/negative-
result studies
• Tooling, automation, continuous reliability monitoring, observability, and operational
feedback loops
Research Track Paper Categories
The research track at ISSRE 2026 invites high-quality submissions of technical research
papers that describe original, unpublished results exploring new scientific ideas,
contribute new evidence to established research directions, or reflect on practical
experience. Specifically, ISSRE solicits submissions in three categories:
• Research (RES) papers
• Practical experience reports (PER)
• Tools and artefacts (TAR) papers
Papers will be assessed with criteria appropriate to each category. All the papers of the
three categories are regular and full papers, and will be published in the same ISSRE
proceedings.
RES Papers
RES papers (12 pages, including references) should describe a novel contribution to the
reliability of software systems. Novelty should be argued via concrete evidence and
appropriate positioning within the state of the art. RES papers are also expected to
explain the validation process and its limitations clearly.
PER Papers
PER papers (12 pages, including references) should provide an in-depth exposition of
practical experiences ideally performed by a collaboration of researchers and industry
practitioners. The key contribution of these papers should be lessons learned from
applying established research tools and methods to ISSRE topics, or new knowledge
acquired through empirical studies conducted using various research methodologies.
Negative results are welcome, e.g., discussing where or why current research cannot be
applied in an industrially relevant context.
TAR Papers
TAR papers (6 – 10 pages, including references) should describe a new tool or artefact.
Tool-focused TAR papers must present either a new tool or a novel and substantial
extension of an existing tool. They should include a description of (i) the theoretical
foundations, (ii) the design and implementation aspects, and (iii) experiments with
realistic case studies. Making the tool publicly available is strongly encouraged.
Artefact-focused TAR papers should cover (i) a working copy of the software and (ii)
experimental data sets. Dataset papers should introduce a new dataset that supports
experimentation, benchmarking, evaluation, or training in AI-driven software engineering.
Submissions should describe: (i) dataset motivation and scope, (ii) data collection and
processing methodology, (iii) dataset structure and statistics, and (iv) potential use cases.
Benchmark papers should present a new benchmark suite for evaluating tools, LLMs, or
algorithms. Submissions should include: (i) benchmark design principles, (ii) task
definitions and evaluation metrics, (iii) baseline results, and (iv) reproducibility package.
The ISSRE conference encourages authors of all three categories of research track papers
to follow the principles of transparency, reproducibility, and replicability. Authors are
encouraged to disclose data to increase reproducibility and replicability. Should the paper
be accepted, the authors will have the opportunity (and are encouraged to) submit
artifacts to the Artifact Evaluation (AE) track, to enhance the reproducibility and quality of
the research. By submitting your artifacts, you not only contribute to the progress of our
field but also stand a chance to earn badges that will be displayed on your papers in the
conference proceedings, showcasing the credibility and rigor of your work.
At least one author of each accepted paper must register as an author and present the
paper in person at the conference.
Best Research Paper Award
ISSRE is pleased to announce the IEEE Best Research Paper Award, awarded every year to
the best paper in the Research Track.
Special Journal Issue
Authors of accepted papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their work to
a special issue of the Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE) journal (under negotiation as
in previous editions of the conference). The Call for Papers will be available soon.
Review Process & Quality Assurance in ISSRE 2026 (New)
Please refer to the information on the conference web site:
Major Revision Guidelines
Please refer to the information on the conference web site:
Rapid Response Reviewers (RRRs)
Please refer to the information on the conference web site:
Anonymizing Rules
Please refer to the information on the conference web site:
Formatting Rules
Please refer to the information on the conference web site:
Paper Submission
Submissions will be reviewed by the Program Committee through a double-blind
reviewing process, with a limited use of outside referees. Papers will be held in complete
confidence during the reviewing process, but papers accompanied by nondisclosure
agreement forms are not acceptable and will be rejected without review.
Changes in the number and order of authors will not be allowed after the paper
acceptance.
Authors must anonymize their submissions in accordance with the guidelines above.
Submissions violating the formatting and anonymization rules will be desk-rejected
without review. There will be no extensions for reformatting.
Conference Proceedings
The authors of accepted papers must omit the paper’s type from the title to keep
consistency among all the camera-ready versions in the proceedings. The conference
proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing Services
(CPS). Papers presented at the conference will be submitted for inclusion into IEEE Xplore
and to all of the A&I (abstracting and indexing) partners (such as the EI Compendex).
Important Dates (AoE)
• Abstract Submission Deadline: April 24, 2026 (extended and final!)
• Paper Submission Deadline: April 24, 2026 (extended and final!)
• Author Rebuttal Period: June 5 – June 9, 2026
• Decisions and Early Notification: June 15, 2026
• Author Revision Period: June 16 – July 3, 2026
• Notification to Authors: July 8, 2026
• Camera Ready Papers: August 19, 2026
• Author Registration Deadline (Research Track): 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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